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Tag Name "Miseries" (109)

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Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.
Frank Sulloway
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
Toni Cade Bambara
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Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.
Robert Emmet
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Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.
Homer
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.
Swami Vivekananda
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Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.
Thomas Brooks
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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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Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
Philip Sidney
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Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.
William Shakespeare
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You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.
Jonathan Franzen
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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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