Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all read more

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

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.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he read more

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.

The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

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.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.