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Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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People in misery is what most important in art.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
Author:
Fay Wray
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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Author:
Duke Wellington
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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.
Author:
Beatrice Webb
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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
Author:
Voltaire
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
Author:
Walter Ulbricht
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
Author:
Allen Toussaint
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
Author:
Brooke Shields
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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
Author:
Mary Shelley
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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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.
Author:
John Ruskin
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I am talking about misery and all of its implications.
Author:
Juan Rulfo
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
Author:
Boyle Roche
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Misery loves company.
Author:
John Ray
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Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
Author:
Jean Racine
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Author:
Luigi Pirandello
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Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
Author:
Gifford Pinchot
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Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
Author:
Francis Picabia
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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.
Author:
Stephen Phillips
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
Author:
Cesare Pavese
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
Author:
Gordon Parks
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There is winning and there is misery.
Author:
Bill Parcells
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Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Author:
Thomas Otway
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Author:
Madalyn O'Hair
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Author:
Nagarjuna
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
Author:
Louis Mumford
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So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.
Author:
Emily Mortimer
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If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
Author:
Brian Moore
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Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Author:
Addison Mizner
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Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
Author:
James Madison
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Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
Author:
Franz Liszt
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Author:
C. Lewis
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I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Author:
Matt LeBlanc
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Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
Author:
Matt LeBlanc
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
Author:
Philip Larkin
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It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
Author:
Christine Keeler
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To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
Author:
Denis Kearney
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Author:
Erica Jong
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
Author:
Helen Jackson
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Misery is a match that never goes out.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Author:
Richard Hooker
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
Author:
Heinrich Heine
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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
Author:
Karl Hartmann
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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Author:
Michael Harrington
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The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
Author:
George Grosz
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Author:
Graham Greene
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He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
Author:
Thomas Gray
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Misery is a communicable disease.
Author:
Martha Graham
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We can never flee the misery that is within us.
Author:
Arthur Golden
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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.
Author:
William Glasser
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
Author:
Martha Gellhorn
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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Author:
Anne Frank
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I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Author:
Anne Frank
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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Author:
Anne Frank
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The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
Author:
John Fowles
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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.
Author:
Federico Fellini
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Author:
Euripides
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
Author:
Georges Duhamel
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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Author:
Theodore Dreiser
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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Author:
Margaret Drabble
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Author:
Robertson Davies
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Author:
Samuel Daniel
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I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
Author:
Jon Crosby
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Author:
Victor Cousin
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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
Author:
William Cobbett
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Author:
Montgomery Clift
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My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
Author:
John Cleveland
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Author:
Albert Camus
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Author:
Albert Camus
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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
Author:
John Calvin
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
Author:
David Burns
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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Author:
Bertolt Brecht
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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Author:
Boethius
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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Author:
Josh Billings
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Author:
Josh Billings
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
Author:
Ahmed Bella
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Author:
Russell Baker
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Author:
Jane Austen
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Author:
Matthew Arnold
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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, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.
Author:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Author:
Aeschylus
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Author:
Joseph Addison
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Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
Author:
Arthur Adamov
