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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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 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.
The child of misery, baptized in tears!
The child of misery, baptized in tears!
He that is down need fear no fall.
He that is down need fear no fall.
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.]
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.
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
