Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so.
A tendancy to melancholy. . . let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.
I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the misfortune to be inflicted with some particular disease is solely responsible for searching the facilities to cure his illness. This is a social responsibility which is accepted by governments all over the world. This is part and parcel of the organization of individuals into societies. It is a measure of the degree of civilization.
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.
Misfortune was my god.
I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Have recourse trustfully to Gods loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you may have had the misfortune to offend Him, He is always ready to receive you, provided you return humbly to Him.
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.