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«There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer (Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian) | About: Animals | Keywords: cats, miseries, refuge
«Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing»
Author: Herodotus | Keywords: bitterest, miseries
«There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge | Keywords: a people, claiming, fatuous, good part, ills, indecent, lamentable, miseries, modern world, phrase, The Pursuit of Happiness, undertaken
«One way of getting an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: countrymen, miseries
«There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | About: Smile | Keywords: dimple, dimpled, dimples, dimpling, miseries, smiling, wrinkles
«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.»
Author: Rudyard Kipling | Keywords: cannon, cannon ball, debts, miseries, shower, volley, volleys
«One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: miseries
«Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: miseries, tenths
«Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: console, consoled, consoles, consoling, frivolous, miseries
«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.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: affairs, bound, flood, flood tide, miseries, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, shallows, The Flood, tide, voyage
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