Misery Quotes - Page 8

• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• Misery loves company.

  John Ray

  Love, Company

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• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  Ralph Steadman

  Revenge, Hate, Men

  "Fictional character: David Rossi". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 2: "The Pact", October 10, 2012.

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• Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Passion, Patriotic

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• Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

  Alexander Smith

  Life, Happiness, Time

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.156

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• Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Destruction

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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

  George Eliot

  World, Poverty, Helping

  "Silas Marner".

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• A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Anger, Evil

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Remarks on Italy. The Tatler”, p.323

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• Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

  Dennis Prager

  Gratitude, Grateful, Suffering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

  Joan Rivers

  Hilarious, Sailing, Pay

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• This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

  Walter Ulbricht

  People, Causes, Hunger

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• The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

  Jurgen Habermas

  War, Years, Thirty

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, September 1, 2004.

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• Never was a miser a brave soul.

  George Herbert

  Bravery, Soul, Literature

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• A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Soul, Doe, Share

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

  Lord Byron

  Shoes, Charity, Cold

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• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Cake, Taste

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.47

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• My life has run from misery to happiness.

  Loretta Lynn

  Running

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.99, Vintage

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• To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

  Denis Kearney

  Tyrants, Despair, World

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• You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

  Gordon Parks

  Cameras, Shows, Knows

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• When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

  Cyril Connolly

  Animal, Thinking, Literature

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• Misery travels free through the whole world!

  Friedrich Schiller

  World, Whole, Whole World

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.583

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• The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Numbers, People, Wonderful

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

  Alexander Pope

  Midnight, Woe, Bears

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.214

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• The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Reflection, September 11

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• Misery still delights to trace
  Its semblance in another's case.

  William Cowper

  Delight, Cases, Stills

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.446

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