"He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them ."
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"The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification."
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"Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself."
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"Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that."
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"Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths."
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"extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery."
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"There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery."
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"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"
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"Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery"
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"Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity."
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"God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery."
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"When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes."
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"And mighty poets in their misery dead."
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"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it."
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"Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness."
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"Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good."
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"Misery is a match that never goes out."
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"God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself."
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"The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries."
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"I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery."
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