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Misery Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
- To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of…
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
- One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
- Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment,…
- 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…
- Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.
- The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
- Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
- Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.
- Misery and shame are nearly allied.
- Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature;…
- Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
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- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
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- 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
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- Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. — Miguel de Cervantes
- 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
- Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins