miseries quotes

  • All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind. 234

    - Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra Connor
      Some Reminiscences, preface. English journalist,  a  columnist  with  the  Daily  Mirror  from 1935 until his death.

  • 'None can usurp this height,'returned that shade, 'But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.'

    -John Keats
      'The Fall of Hyperion', l.147^9. (Published1856.)

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