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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

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

— Herodotus

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ↗

— Philip Massinger

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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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