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• Modesty that comes to expression. It is favorable to set armies marching To chastise one's own city and one's country.
• Turning away from nourishment. Perseverance brings misfortune.
  Do not act thus for ten years. Nothing serves to further....
• No cry. In the end misfortune comes.
• Bound with cords and ropes, Shut in between thorn-hedged prison wall
  For three years one does not find the way. Misfortune....
• Opportunity... often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
  -- Napoleon Hill...
• A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 346...
• Perseverance furthers. To undertake something brings misfortune.
  Without decreasing oneself, One is able to bring increase to others....
• Almost any misfortune is preferable to a worse one.
• Repetition of the Abysmal. In the abyss one falls into a pit. Misfortune.