This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis… — Martial Copy Share Image
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. — Empedocles Copy Share Image
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for… — Homer Copy Share Image
To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!] — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
I can sense and feel this wretched compassion that I don't want. But it's there. It's a very painful kind of compassion.… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
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