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Improperium exspectavit cor meum, et miseriam: et sustinui, qui simul mecum contristaretur, et non fuit: consolantem me quaesivi, et non inveni: et dederunt in escam meam fel, et in siti mea potaverunt me aceto, potaverunt me aceto.
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[2782] Male meretur, qui dat mendico, quod edat; nam et illud quod dat, perit; et illi producit vitam ad miseriam: he that gives a beggar an alms (as that comical poet said) doth ill, because he doth but prolong his miseries.
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Deplorabant eorum miseriam qui subterraneis illis locis vitam degunt.
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Qualis est animi tinea, quae tabes pectoris zelare in altero vel aliorum felicitatem suam facere miseriam, et velut quosdam pectori suo admovere carnifices, cogitationibus et sensibus suis adhibere tortores, qui se intestinis cruciatibus lacerent.
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Quæ singula cùm ad horam pascant vana delectatione sensus corporeos, miseriam tamen inserunt piæ menti, quòd tot et tanti homines, neglecta prorsus animi salute, his diabolicis operationibus se dederunt in toto.
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Qu� singula c鵰 ad horam pascant vana delectatione sensus corporeos, miseriam tamen inserunt pi� menti, qu騞 tot et tanti homines, neglecta prorsus animi salute, his diabolicis operationibus se dederunt in toto.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now mercy (_misericordia_) regards unhappiness (_miseriam_) which is contrary to glory.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Aegre est mi, hunc facere quaestum carcerarium propter sui gnati miseriam miserum senem.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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"Hinc igitur aliis de causis ea radice nitentibus, quod turpitudo suapte natura miseros faciat, apparet inlatam cuilibet iniuriam non accipientis sed inferentis esse miseriam."
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Et quoniam tu idem es cui persuasum atque insitum permultis demonstrationibus scio mentes hominum nullo modo esse mortales cumque clarum sit fortuitam felicitatem corporis morte finiri, dubitari nequit, si haec afferre beatitudinem potest, quin omne mortalium genus in miseriam mortis fine labatur.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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