A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.
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No. 162 (5 September 1711).Joseph Addison
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Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.
Livy
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
"In great misfortunes," he told himself, "people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love — if once one has ever fallen in."
Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.Willa Cather
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Edmund Burke
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
Bert Williams
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