#fortunes

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#misfortunes #women #women

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#country #fortunes #god #hands #his

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#every #every man #man #many #men

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#follies #history #little #mankind #misfortunes

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cloudy #constitutions #day #great #influence

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#especially #misfortunes #others #quickly #shed

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#beast #child #children #cry #mensch

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#befall #boy #bring #consequence #few

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#came #hardest #misfortunes #never #these