The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.

Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

No, misery makes sport to mock itself.

No, misery makes sport to mock itself.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help
smiling at, but they are the 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.

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.

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

This, this is misery! the last, the worst,
That man can feel.

This, this is misery! the last, the worst,
That man can feel.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.