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"Misery is a match that never goes out."
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"Misery is a match that never goes out."
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"Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow."
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"Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together."
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"Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to."
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"Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa)."
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"I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy."
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"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
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"Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life."
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"Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life, the cause of it is moha (illusory vision)."
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"Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and--butter and cheese not withstanding--Neve had no question that Spear was the latter."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
Men

"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
Education

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
Thought

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
Men

"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge

"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy."
Life

"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah."
Science

"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."
Science

"My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right."
Experience

"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."
Truth
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