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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.


William Shakespeare

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NICHOLAS SPARKS Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
ROBERT ANTHONY Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
ROBERT ANTHONY Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
DR. ROBERT ANTHONY Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
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JAMES SHAPIRO It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.
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MAURICE MAETERLINCK I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
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CUTHBERT SOUP To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.
BRANDON SANDERSON Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I would rather be criticize by the slave of love than to be criticize by someone you hate the most
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NEIL GAIMAN I would rather be alone and happy than be with someone who makes me miserable!
JILL If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional,...
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MIKE YACONELLI The superstitious, who know how to reprove vices rather than how to teach virtues, and who strive, n...
BARUCH SPINOZA O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
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JAMES LANKFORD I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
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MAURICE W. LINDSAY Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink co...
SHIRLEY JACKSON Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
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ANGIE KARAN It’s just nicer to be crazy than to be unloved.
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KAHLIL GIBRAN Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love
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MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
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WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you'...
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ALVIN TOFFLER Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise, bureaucrats.
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HANNAH ARENDT The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
MOTHER TERESA The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
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MOTHER TERESA You should be afraid of a silent dog rather than a barking one.
VIKRANT PARSAI You should be single rather than asking for personal space in a relationship.
SUNNY KINGER I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
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CLARA WINTER Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.
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AESOP We often despise what is most useful to us
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Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proverb is something musty.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
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When his fair angels would salute by palm,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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