It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those read more

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.

And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
[Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
[Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.