#miser

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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He gave to misery (all he had) a tear. ↗

— Thomas Gray

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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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