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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Friends and Friendship
Joseph Addison

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If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Movies
Woody Allen

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Life and Living
Woody Allen

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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Self-love
Matthew Arnold

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Optimism
Jane Austen

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Fear
Francis Bacon

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Life and Living
Francis Bacon

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Ambition
Henry Ward Beecher

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
Happiness
Ambrose Bierce

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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Bachelor
Jean De La Bruyere

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Engagement
Lord Byron

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Egotism
Thomas Carlyle

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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Misers and Misery
Miguel De Cervantes

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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Suffering
Claudius

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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Happiness
William Cobbett

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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
Patience
William Cobbett

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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
Sex
Quentin Crisp

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Memory
Dante Alighieri

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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Pleasure
Margaret Drabble

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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Choice
Wayne Dyer

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Recreation
George Eliot

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Work
Benjamin Franklin

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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Disasters
Edward Gibbon

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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
Direction
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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A miser and a liar bargain quickly.
Negotiation
Greek Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun