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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
* Aesop
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
* Lydia M. Child
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In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
* Euripedes
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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.
* Samuel Johnson
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
* Carl Jung
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Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall.
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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People don't seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.
* William McFee
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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top--or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
* Richard M. Nixon
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
* Will Roger
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions!
* William Shakespeare
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