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Misery loves company.


John Ray
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.


Henry David Thoreau
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.


Francois Rabelais
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Sin carries in it its own misery.


John Piper
Tags: Own Sin Misery
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.


Bertrand Russell
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Misery is a match that never goes out.


Thomas Huxley
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He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.


Thomas Gray
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You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.


Brooke Shields
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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.


Voltaire
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.


Victor Hugo
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I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.


Anne Frank
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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.


Joseph Butler
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.


Frederick Douglass
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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.


Thomas Malthus
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.


Martha Washington
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.


Anthony Trollope
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
Franz Liszt
Tags: Change Us Nothing
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.


Lord Byron
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Federico Fellini
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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
Beatrice Webb
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
William Glasser
Tags: Most Even Us
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.
Mario Monicelli
Tags: Age Death Always
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
Stephen Phillips
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Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'
Michael Winter
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Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.
Jan Hus
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Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
Dennis Prager
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We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.
Piet Mondrian
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If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.
Claire Danes
Tags: Work Home Me
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
Martha Washington
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin
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Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.
Julian Baggini
Tags: You Your World
Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.
Steven Pinker
Tags: Change More Than
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?
Joyce Meyer
Tags: Attitude You Know
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
Rebecca Harding Davis
Tags: Great War Up