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There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.
There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.
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.
Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.
Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
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.
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
[Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
[Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of
continued happiness?
[Fr., Il read more
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of
continued happiness?
[Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables,
Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those read more
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.