怎么翻译 "塞翁失马，焉知祸福"？
This is one Chinese story I love the best. It says a blessing and a curse are often interchangeable. I wonder is there any equivalent idiom in English?

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怎么翻译 "塞翁失马，焉知祸福"？
This is one Chinese story I love the best. It says a blessing and a curse are often interchangeable. I wonder is there any equivalent idiom in  English?

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Nothing so bad, knows happens  ~

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塞翁失马 = a blessing in disguise

There is a saying from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"Every misfortune bears within it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

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Misfortune may be a blessing in disguise or When God shuts a door, He opens another.
塞翁失马 焉知非福

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1.Misfortune may be an actual blessing.
2.Misfortune may be an actual blessing.
3.Every cloud has a silver lining. 
4.Misfortune might be a blessing in disguise
5.A blessing in disguise

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