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Letter "M" » misfortune
«They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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application, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, awareness, core, difficulties, inherent, inspiration, insufficient, misfortune, persistence, realized, species, The Core, vigor, worthwhile
«The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.»
«The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.»
«Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| Keywords:
defeat, disguised, disguises, disguising, form, misfortune, often, opportunity, temporary
«The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune»
«Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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Mind
| Keywords:
clock, frightened, misfortune, pace, perplex, perplexed, perplexes, perplexing, thunderstorm, thunderstorms
«The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.»
«There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortune»
«Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
condition, fortune, good condition, good fortune, Human condition, misfortune, overjoyed, permanent, scornful
«One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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batter, battered, battering, batters, misfortune, prodigious, siege, sieges, The Siege
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