Misfortune

Calamity is man's true touch-stone.

— Misfortune

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, He rose the morrow morn.

— Misfortune

I was a stricken deer that left the herdLong since.

— Misfortune

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,With not a friend to close his eyes.

— Misfortune

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.

— Misfortune

There is something very amusing in the misfortunes of others.

— Misfortune

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

— Misfortune

The worst is notSo long as we can say "This is the worst."

— Misfortune

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

— Misfortune

Such a house broke!And go along with him.

— Misfortune

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

— Misfortune

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

— Misfortune

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

— Misfortune

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

— Misfortune

But strong of limbDo afterwards redress.

— Misfortune

Take her up tenderly, Young and so fair!

— Misfortune

One more unfortunate Gone to her death.

— Misfortune

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

— Misfortune

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

— Misfortune

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

— Misfortune

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

— Misfortune

From good to bad, and from bad to worse,And then return to his former fall.

— Misfortune

I shall not let a sorrow die Until each one becomes my brother.

— Misfortune

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn For evermore!

— Misfortune