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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Misery

Miguel de Cervantes

PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

4.4 · 52 votes

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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.

Misery

AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

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All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

Misery

PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

4.0 · 44 votes · 183 reads

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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to t

Misery

AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.9 · 30 votes · 160 reads

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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Misery

PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

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I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

Misery

PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

3.8 · 50 votes

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Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Misery

Francis Picabia

PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

4.6 · 61 votes

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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Misery

William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

3.7 · 39 votes · 109 reads

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Never was a miser a brave soul.

Misery

PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

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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

Misery

AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

3.0 · 27 votes · 133 reads

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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.
Graham Greene
WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century
4.8 · 63 votes · 116 reads
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Anonymous
3.8 · 19 votes · 133 reads
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
5.0 · 62 votes · 113 reads
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The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
Jean de la Bruyère
French1645 · 17th century
3.0 · 50 votes · 16 reads
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.4 · 11 votes · 130 reads
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus
NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century
3.6 · 5 votes · 122 reads
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
Will Rogers
ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century
3.3 · 51 votes · 38 reads
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx
EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century
3.9 · 55 votes · 70 reads
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