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That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's
misery.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's
misery.
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.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
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.]
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
The child of misery, baptized in tears!
The child of misery, baptized in tears!