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  I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Sad

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• Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sight, Instinct, Throat

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

  Iris Murdoch

  Children, Despair, Adults

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  Misery is a communicable disease.

  Martha Graham

  Attitude, Disease, Emotion

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• Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Moments, Clinging

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• Misery is wasted on the miserable.

  Louis C. K.

  Miserable

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• A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Honor, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”

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• The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Progress, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2921, Manonmani Publishers

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  Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Democratic Socialism

  Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948.

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  There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Grief, Feelings

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…”, p.7307, e-artnow

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• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Fire, Brave

  "De Providentia", V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

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• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

  John Milton

  Patience, Pain, Evil

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.461-3.

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• Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Views, Shoes

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• The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Men, Fortune

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 61, 1678.

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• For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

  John Calvin

  Godly, Strive, Strife

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• Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

  Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.26, Penguin

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• He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Age, Spirit

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• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Depressing, Funny Life

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  Quintilian

  Ideas, Form, Can Not

  "De Institutione Oratoria", IX, 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 637-38, 1922.

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• Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

  Boethius

  Happiness, Depression, Depressing

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• It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

  William Cobbett

  Patience, Time, Life And Love

  William Cobbett (1850). “Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry, and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family : to which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets : and Also Instructions for Erecting and Using Ice-houses, After the Virginian Manner”, p.11

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