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

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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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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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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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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Will and Will Power
Richard Hooker

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The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson

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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Temper
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
Misers and Misery
Francis Picabia

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Hope
Bertrand Russell

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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Misers and Misery
William Shakespeare

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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Company
Thomas Traherne

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
Spirit and Spirituality
Voltaire

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