MISERY
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and
many things to fear.—BACON, Essays
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Nothing is a misery,
Unless our weakness apprehend it so.—BEAUMONT SL FLETCHER, Honest Man's Fortune
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To have a stomach and lack meat, to have meat and lack a stomach, to lie in bed and cannot rest are great miseries.—WILLIAM CAMDEN, Remains
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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
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If in this world there is one misery having no relief, it is the pressure on the heart from the Incommunicable.—DE QUINCEY, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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It would be far better to work at the prevention of misery, than to multiply places of refuge for the miserable.—DIDEROT, The Encyclopedia
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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.—O. W. HOLMES, The Poet at the Breakfast Table
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This, this is misery! the last, the worst,
That man can feel.—HOMER, Iliad
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He that wanders about the world sees new forms of human misery, and if he chances to meet an old friend, meets a face darkened with troubles.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Letters
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Misery is but the shadow of happiness. Happiness is but the cloak of misery.—LAO-TSZE, The Simple Way
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Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair?—MILTON, Paradise Lost
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He bears misery best that hides it most.—Proverb
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Misery loves company.—Proverb
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Nothing almost sees miracles
But misery.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
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Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.—BERNARD SHAW, Parents and Children
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.—THOREAU, Journal
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