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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Misfortune was my god.
We learn by misfortune.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
