"Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery."
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"The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself."
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"Misery travels free through the whole world!"
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"frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace."
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"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."
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"If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction."
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"Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery."
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"Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time."
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"It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result."
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"I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all."
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"Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?"
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"Misery is the River of the World"
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"Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it."
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"Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death."
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"A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more."
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"...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery."
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"The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time."
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"But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct."
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"Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery."
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"It's always winter but it's never Christmas."
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