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 Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a 
piece of orange-peel.  
 Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a 
piece of orange-peel. 
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.
 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? 
 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.] 
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of read more
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles 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.
 Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
 [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]  
 Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
 [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.] 
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.
The child of misery, baptized in tears!
The child of misery, baptized in tears!