Quotes with distress

  • Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

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  • Adolf Hitler All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Andrew Young Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Seneca Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Thomas Paine He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Paine I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Ian McEwan I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • George Crabbe In this wild world the fondest and the best
    are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.
    George Crabbe
    English poet, surgeon and clergyman (1745 - 1832)
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  • George Washington Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Brigitte Bardot My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Brad Meltzer Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Thomas Paine The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Horace Mann To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • William Blake Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Seneca Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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