If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Never despair but if you do work on in despair.
Yield not to misfortunes but advance all the more Boldly against them.
There is nothing so powerful as truth; And often nothing so strange.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight and that no small one in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Fortune knocks but once but misfortune has much more patience.
Misfortune n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
No misfortune or vexation befalleth a servant of God small or great but on account of his faults committed: and most of these God forgiveth.