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«There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.»
Author: Alexandre Dumas
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Death,
Happiness,
Life,
Misery,
Revenge
| Keywords:
comparison, comparisons, enjoyments
«The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery»
«Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.»
«Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish»
«The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable»
Author: Theodore Parker
| About:
Body,
Misery,
Soul
| Keywords:
creep, estate, his brother, miser, Poor brother, starves, starving
«The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.»
«The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Happiness,
Misery
| Keywords:
Black man, misery, purchased, purchases, purchasing, The Black, The Purchase, The White, white man
«Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Misery,
Pain
| Keywords:
Call for help, diminishing, misery, spared
«The miserable have no other medicine but hope.»
«The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit»
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