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The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
[Lat., Miserias properant suas
Audire miseri.]
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
[Lat., Miserias properant suas
Audire miseri.]
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help
smiling at, but they are the read more
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help
smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not
dimples.
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
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to a grim and comfortless read more
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,
And at her heels a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
The child of misery, baptized in tears!
The child of misery, baptized in tears!
But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he read more
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.