#miser

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#been #ever #goal #got #had

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.' ↗

— Bam Margera

#fun #have fun #i #just #life

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

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During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it. ↗

— Davy Jones

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My life has run from misery to happiness. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#life #misery #my life #run

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ↗

— George Santayana

#altogether #ape #drunkard #human #irrational

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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