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“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.”
“I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. ...”
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”
“Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before.”
“When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.”
“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.”
“I leaned back and glimpsed the stars, the same stories again but written in the sky.”
“We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction”
“When Americans find out I grew up in the tenements, the question they invariably ask me is how did you end up there? Americans, it seems, find comfort in reasons and explanations. They honestly bel...”
“If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know.""...”
“Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from th...”
“Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”
“Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.”
“Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.”
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.”
“We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.”
“Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”
“The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."”
