Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
A beggarly account of boxes,
Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,
Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses
Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.
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I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains
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The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.
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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
He that is down need fear no fall.
He that is down need fear no fall.
