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Letter "M" » miseries
«Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.»
«I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... And think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries... Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences ...»
«Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Happiness,
Love,
Marriage,
Misery,
Relationships
| Keywords:
enjoyments, enlarges, miseries, scene
«Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.»
«I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
brought, conceive, conceives, conceiving, estimates, estimating, false, mankind, miseries, The Great, value
«It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
infelicity, miseries, uninstructed
«I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness.»
«Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part.»
«Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
miseries
«I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le»
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