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Misfortune

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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

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We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves.

William Shakespeare

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“God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
Why look’st thou so?”—“With my crossbow
I shot the Albatross.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Imagine a man in the ditch,
The wheels of the overturned wreck
Still spinning—
I don’t mean he despairs, I mean if he does not
He sees in the manner of poetry

George Oppen

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Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth ’scapes i’ the imminent deadly breach.

William Shakespeare

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