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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.
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.
Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.
Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
The miserable have no other medicine but hope.
The miserable have no other medicine but hope.
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.
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery read more
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
