Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Misery

He bears misery best who hides it most.

He is miserable indeed who must lock up his miseries.

He is miserable once who feels it, but twice who fears it before it comes.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.Shakespeare.

Misery doth brave minds abate.Spenser.

Misery is always unjust.

Misery must be the mother,
When one beggar begets another.

Sacred even to gods, is misery.Homer.

The miseries of the virtuous are the scandal of the good.Publius Syrus.

This iron world brings down the stoutest heart to lowest state,
For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spenser.

When misery is highest, help is nighest.