Misfortunes.

1. A man's part is to bear misfortunes lightly.

Antiphanes.

2. A misfortune and a friar are seldom alone.

3. Another's misfortune does not cure my pain.

Par.

4. Another's misfortune is only a dream. Fr.

5. Blessed is the misfortune that comes alone.

Ital.

6. Do not yield to misfortunes. Latin.

7. He who is born to misfortune stumbles as he

goes,
And though he fall on his back will fracture
his nose. Ger.

8. He who is the cause of his own misfortune
may bewail it himself. ItcU.

9. I never knew any man in my life who could
not bear another's misfortune perfectly like a Chris-
tian. Pope,

10. It is a great art to laugh at your own misfor-
tunes. Dan.

^*^ftT. It is better to forget one's misfortunes than
to talk about them. Fr.

12. It is good to see in the misfortunes of others
what we should avoid. Syrus.

13. Misfortune does not always come to injure.

Ital

14. Misfortune is a good teacher. Ger.

15. Misfortune is good for something. Fr.

16. Misfortune is often the daughter of a good
mother.- Ger.

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17. Misfortunes are close to one another. Latin,

18. Misfortunes are common to all ; life is like a
wheel, and prosperity unstable. Phocylides.

19. Misfortunes come by forties.

20. Misfortunes come on horseback, and go away
on foot. Fr.

21. Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.

22. Misfortunes come unbidden. Ger.

23. Misfortunes make us wise.

24. Misfortunes make strange bedfellows.

25. Misfortunes come at night, /. e,y when least ex-
pected, Grimm^s Fairy Tales,

26. Misfortunes often sharpen the genius. Ovid,

27. Misfortunes seldom assault a man singly, but
assault him in troops whom fate has marked out for
ruin. Turkish Spy,

28. Misfortunes seldom come alone.

29. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

30. Misfortunes that can't be avoided must be
sweetened.

31. Misfortunes to which we are used affect us
less severely. Juvenal,

32. Misfortunes when asleep are not to be wakened.

33. Misfortune will one day find him whom it
has until then passed by. Syrus.

34. Misfortunes, wood, and hair, grow throughout
the year.

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

36. One has always strength enough to bear the
misfortunes of one's friends.

One misfortune brings on another. |

One misfortune is the eve of another, |

That is good misfortune which comes alone. H

The misfortunes to which we are accustomed affect us less deeply.

Theie is no greater misfortune than not to be able bear misfortune.

There is nothing we forget sooner than past misfortunes.

To the wicked misfortunes come triple.

46. When misfortune befalls injuries follow.
Whither goest thou, misfortune? to where there  more ?

Who has no misfortune is fortunate enough. |

Mistakes occur in the best regulated families.

Mistakes occur through haste never through | doing a thing leisurely.

To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.