"God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery."
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"Misery makes sport to mock itself."
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"Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you."
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"You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery."
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"Misery and shame are nearly allied."
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"Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable."
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"The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative."
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"Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships."
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"From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations."
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"This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery."
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"Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery."
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"I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art."
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"Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself."
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"Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too."
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"The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too."
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"The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful."
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"The miserable are sacred."
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"It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom."
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"Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd."
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"How we are born to invent our own miseries!"
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