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“To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 157.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 65d14663dcb5c9d497275f609b2cd518d56bc152efd74f028382405ae7ab876c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet…”
Henry W. Longfellow
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And…”
Samuel Johnson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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