Quotes with miseries

  • Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
  • The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

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  • Blaise Pascal All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
    Original: Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jean Paul Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • William Cowper Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Samuel Johnson One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Eliot One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Blaise Pascal The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Philip Massinger To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
    Philip Massinger
    English dramatist (1583 - 1640)
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