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When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

John Dryden
Misfortunes

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

George Stillman Hillard
Dignity, Redeeming, Misfortunes
George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.223

Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

Shinjo Ito
Blind, Pity, Misfortunes
Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.56

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

Louisa May Alcott
Cheerfulness, Misfortunes
Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.2238, Delphi Classics

We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!

Gustave Flaubert
Bears, Beaten, Misfortunes

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

Benjamin Franklin
Good Nature, Prudence, Misfortunes
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.173, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Misfortune was my god.

Arthur Rimbaud
Misfortunes
Arthur Rimbaud (1974). “A Season in Hell: The Illuminations”, p.43, Oxford University Press on Demand

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

Winston Churchill
War, Mean, Misfortunes

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

William Graham Sumner
Men, Misfortunes
William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.490, Cosimo, Inc.

Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.

Sophocles
Wind, Flying, Misfortunes

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

Sophie Swetchine
Men, Divine, Misfortunes

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

Simon Armitage
Karma, Misfortunes
Simon Armitage (2011). “The Death of King Arthur”, p.62, Faber & Faber

Misfortunes should always be expected.

Samuel Johnson
Should, Expected, Misfortunes

What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune?

Robert G. Allen
Miracle, Misfortunes

Never find delight in another's misfortune.

Publilius Syrus
Delight, Misfortunes

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Publilius Syrus
Injury, Misfortunes Of Others, Misfortunes

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Philip Sidney
Misery, Fortune, Misfortunes
Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, p.396, Delphi Classics

Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

Ovid
Able, Bears, Misfortunes Of Others

During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.

Norm MacDonald
Conditions, Deserving, Misfortunes

Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan
Awkwardness, Misfortunes

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

Mason Cooley
Doe, Fool, Misfortunes

Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Happiness, Misfortunes

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Heaven, Moral, Misfortunes

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

Margaret Mitchell
Love You, Knows, Misfortunes

Everybody has their days of misfortune.

Louisa May Alcott
Misfortunes
Louisa May Alcott (1873). “An Old-fashioned Girl”, p.141

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