Quotations on Misfortune | Quotations: 15 | Pages: 2
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A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. |
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by Jean de La Bruyère
(August 16, 1645 - May 10, 1696) |
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. |
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by Aesop
(~ 620 BC - ~ 550 BC) |
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. |
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by Pierre Corneille
(June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684) |
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. |
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by John Dryden
(August 9, 1631 - May 1, 1700) |
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth expos'd h ... |
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by Washington Irving
(April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) |
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. |
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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834) |
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. |
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by Plato
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, ... |
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by Aischylos
(525 BC - 456 BC) |
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. |
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by James Russell Lowell
(February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891) |
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. |
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