misfortunes
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Practical advice from one Charles Dickens in “Sketches by Boz”: “Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025
"To differing degrees the social services and police's responses to the situation that they found themselves in was that they were the authoresses of their own misfortunes," he said.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025
The train station’s history reflects the city’s fortunes during its heyday as the world’s car capital and later misfortunes as thousands of auto workers and other residents fled Detroit for life in the suburbs.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
Zeus’s jealous wife, Hera, was the direct cause of her misfortunes, but back of them all was Zeus himself.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
