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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.
The worst of misery
Is when a nature framed for noblest things
Condemns itself in youth to read more
The worst of misery
Is when a nature framed for noblest things
Condemns itself in youth to petty joys,
And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life
Gasping from out the shallows.
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
[Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
[Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]
He that is down need fear no fall.
He that is down need fear no fall.
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage read more
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's
misery.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's
misery.
The miserable have no other medicine but hope.
The miserable have no other medicine but hope.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
