#miser

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ↗

— William Blake

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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. ↗

— William Blake

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son. ↗

— John Dryden

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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. ↗

— Boethius

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. ↗

— Boethius

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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South. ↗

— Omar Bongo

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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. ↗

— James Boswell

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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. ↗

— Euripides

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