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Miseries Quotes
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
Socialism
,
Blessings
,
Capitalism
,
Virtue
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
Life
,
Music
,
Cats
,
Pet
,
Two
,
Refuge
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
Life
,
Sea
,
Men
,
Lose
,
Tide
,
Now
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal
Alone
,
Men
,
Quiet
,
Sit
,
Room
,
Being
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
William Samuel Johnson
Hope
,
Sickness
,
Poverty
,
Comfort
,
Every
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.
Robert E. Lee
Me
,
People
,
Government
,
Sword
,
Will
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
Faith
,
I Am
,
More
,
Been
,
Very
,
Large
We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.
Donald Trump
Tomorrow
,
Space
,
Pride
,
Stand
,
Free
,
New
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling
Fire
,
Small
,
Stand
,
Meet
,
Want
,
Places
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher
Climb
,
Mankind
,
Upward
,
Except
,
Those
I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.
Shelby Lynne
Choice
,
Comfortable
,
No Choice
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
Great
,
Value
,
Things
,
False
,
Made
,
Part
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
Friendship
,
Name
,
Own
,
Why
,
Others
,
Our
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
Benazir Bhutto
Feel
,
Voice
,
Lost
,
Now
,
Right
,
Departure
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus
Men
,
Control
,
Know
,
Nothing
,
Over
,
Much
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
Rain
,
Man
,
Cow
,
Standing
,
Average
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles
Words
,
Present
,
Pleasure
,
Some
,
Bring
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle
Source
,
Faults
,
Summary
,
Egotism
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
Legal
,
Climb
,
Mankind
,
Upward
,
Which
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin
Love
,
Myself
,
Me
,
World
,
Out
,
Because
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love
,
Man
,
Age
,
Old Age
,
Dead
,
Old
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
War
,
Men
,
Bible
,
Ambition
,
Slavery
,
Vice
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
Dorothea Dix
Train
,
Crime
,
Create
,
Petty
,
Errors
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
Victoria Abril
Love
,
People
,
Television
,
Show
,
Coming
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
Oscar Niemeyer
Dreams
,
Daily
,
Humanity
,
Survive
,
Only
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Philip Massinger
Fall
,
Lost
,
Doubt
,
Us
,
Despair
,
Than
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