#miser

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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Never was a miser a brave soul. ↗

— George Herbert

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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. ↗

— Herodotus

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery. ↗

— Richard Hooker

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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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. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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