| 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. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author:
Colton, Charles C.Era:
1780 |
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| Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enought to feel misery. -- Samuel T. Coleridge |
| Author:
Coleridge, Samuel T.Era:
1772 |
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| misery assails riches, as lightning does the highest towers; or as a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks its own boughs, so riches destroy the virtue of their possessor. -- Richard E. Burton |
| Author:
Burton, Richard E.Era:
1861 |
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| An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| misery loves company. -- John Ray |
| Author:
Ray, JohnEra:
1627 |
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