The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery

Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
And in his needy shop read more

Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
A beggarly account of boxes,
Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,
Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses
Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a
piece of orange-peel.

Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a
piece of orange-peel.

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains

No, misery makes sport to mock itself.

No, misery makes sport to mock itself.

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.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.