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Happy people find a way to live with their problems, and miserable people let their problems stop them from living.
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The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision
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We generally fancy ourselves more miserable than we are, for want of taking a true estimate of things; wherefore we fly into transports without reason, and judge of the happiness or calamity of human life, by false lights.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
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The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.
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Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
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The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
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Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
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If someone makes you miserable more than they make you happy, it doesn't matter how much you love them, you need to let them go.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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Miserable person lives without ideals
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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
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The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
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