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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.


Zhang Yimou


#deep #memory #miserable #only #pass

When the nettle is young, the leaves make excellent greens; when it grows old it has filaments and fibers like hemp and flax. Cloth made from the nettle is as good as that made from hemp. Chopped up, the nettle is good for poultry; pounded, it is good for horned cattle. The seed of the nettle mixed with the fodder of animals gives a luster to their skin; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow dye. It makes, however, excellent hay, as it can be cut twice in a season. And what does the nettle need? very little soil, no care, no culture; except that the seeds fall as fast as they ripen, and it is difficult to gather them; that is all. If we would take a little pains, the nettle would be useful; we neglect it, and it becomes harmful. Then we kill it. How much men are like the nettle! My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.


Victor Hugo


#les-miserables #nettle #worthiness #beauty

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.


David Starr Jordan


#life #miserable #really #tried #who

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#miserable #thinks

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.


Fiona Shaw


#misery #threadbare #time

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.


George Bernard Shaw


#being #bother #cure #happy #leisure

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.


George Bernard Shaw


#being #enough #happy #leisure #miserable

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


#allowed #could #extract #feelings #food

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.


William Shenstone


#grows #man #miser #poor #rich






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