Misfortune

"Calamity is man's true touch-stone."

"MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses."

"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."

"I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since."

"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 he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes."

"A man may be reputed an able man this year, and yet be a beggar the next; it is a misfortune that happens to many men, and his former reputation will signify nothing."

"He who travels the hazardous road of misfortune courageously, leaves it strewn with sweet flowers of consolation for others."

"There is something very amusing in the misfortunes of others."

"When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it."

"Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man."

"And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say "This is the worst.""

"O, give me thy hand, One writ with me in sour misfortune's book."

"Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! All gone! and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm, And go along with him."

"We have seen better days."

"Misfortune had conquered her, how true it is, that sooner or later the most rebellious must bow beneath the same yoke."

"None think the great unhappy, but the great."

"It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man."

"Conscientia rectæ voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum."

"Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them."

"A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage."

"Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte."

"But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far Outstripping all, comes first to every land, And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers Do afterwards redress."

"Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair!"

"One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death."

"Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come."

"Suave mari magno, turbantibus æquora ventis E terra magnum alterius spectare laborum."

"Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd."

"Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam Ignavis etiam jocus est in casu gravi."

"Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo."

"I never knew any man in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."

"As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great."

"Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non licuit enim illi se experiri."

"Calamitas virtutis occasio est."

"Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam prætimere. Quæ ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!"

"Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias."

"From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall."

"Bonum est fugienda adspicere in alieno malo."

"I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit; And the ache my body knows Shall teach me more than to another, I shall look deep at mire and rose Until each one becomes my brother."

"Hoccin est credibile, aut memorabile, Tanta vecordia innata cuiquam ut siet, Ut malis gaudeant alienis, atque ex incommodis Alterius, sua ut comparent commoda?"

"Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito."

"So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!"