Miseries Quotes
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
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The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.
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The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
