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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

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, are a much greater misfortune.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Misfortune was my god.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.