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Example sentences for "human misery"

  • I am, in truth, a pretty complete abridgment of human misery.

  • In our last number, we ventured to offer a few indications as to what we considered a part, an important part, of the remedial measures to be resorted to for the prevention of human misery.

  • They are already slaves without masters, and that is the bathos of human misery.

  • Human misery has at last found tongues and pens to make itself heard and felt.

  • Just as the feeling of human misery is human, so the feeling of divine compassion is human.

  • Human misery is the triumph of divine compassion; sorrow for sin is the delight of the divine holiness.

  • God became man out of mercy: thus he was in himself already a human God before he became an actual man; for human want, human misery, went to his heart.

  • It seemed impossible to add anything more to human misery.

  • The question was, not whether there was not some evil attending the Slave Trade, but whether by the measure now before them they should increase or diminish the quantity of human misery in the world.

  • It is five-and-twenty years since my father and mother, who were both among the first arrivals at the Kenia, escaped from the mephitic atmosphere of human misery, the degradation of man by man.

  • Do not seek among the herrings for any explanation of human misery, but regard them simply as one of the many kinds of boarders at the table of nature.

  • She had something in her physiognomy which, severely construed, might argue malice, and a delight in human misery.

  • Bodily pain forms a large proportion of the amount of human misery.

  • Among all nations, and in all ages of the world, ignorance has not only debarred mankind from many exquisite and sublime enjoyments, but has created innumerable unfounded alarms, which greatly increase the sum of human misery.

  • This thought a weight of woe imparts, At once to sink a wretch like me; What can I hope, if human hearts Delight in human misery?

  • Can it be that human hearts Delight in human misery?

  • Each from his pursuit departs, Suffering, dying Man to see; Surely there are human hearts That joy in human misery.

  • It was first the outgrowth of humanitarian and altruistic idealism, perhaps not devoid of a strain of sentimentalism, of an idealism that was aroused by a desperate picture of human misery intensified by the industrial revolution.

  • Labor surplus, or the "army of reserve" which as for decades and centuries furnished the industrial background of human misery, which so invariably defeats strikes and labor revolts, cannot honestly be blamed upon capitalism.

  • Marxian Socialism, which seeks to solve the complex problem of human misery by economic and proletarian revolution, has manifested a new vitality.

  • Had he at last discovered the cause of human misery?

  • That one who observes them strictly must escape from every cause productive of human misery.

  • When our Bōdhisattva became Buddha, what did he see was the cause of human misery?

  • Of these, two hundred and seventy were on the Embankment proper, and ninety-eight in and about Covent Garden Market, while the recesses of Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges were full of human misery.

  • To despair is to lose faith; to despair is to forget God Without God we can do nothing in this frightful chaos of human misery.

  • And all the time, while they studied the social problem and organised charity, the measure of human misery went on increasing.

  • It only palliated the pain; it never sought to dry up the fountains of human misery.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    human action; human association; human blood; human consciousness; human experience; human figures; human freedom; human happiness; human institutions; human invention; human knowledge; human labor; human language; human nature; human need; human power; human responsibility; human science; human skull; human soul; human souls; human spirit; human thought; human voice; national economy; rich man