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Miseries Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to…
- All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
- Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering… — David Walker
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson
- Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards
- The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes
- The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and… — Blaise Pascal
- The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries;… — H. Chandler Elliott
- War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of… — Thomas Jefferson