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Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men read more
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a read more
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
[Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
[Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
