Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus
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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
Toni Cade Bambara
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
William Congreve
All the anxiety and miseries ... it was hard to just sit down and watch when you know you can do it and know you can contribute and you're not given the opportunity. That's harder than not being around football at all.
Michael Jenkins
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson
People should not profit from the miseries resulting from these heinous crimes.
Phill Kline
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Philip Massinger
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