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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.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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.]
All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.
[Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum pars read more
All of which misery I saw, part of which I was.
[Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui.]
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some read more
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.