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Misery Quotes by George MacDonald
- Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
- All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the…
- Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and…
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- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. — Benazir Bhutto
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake