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Wretched Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of…
- Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his…
More Wretched Quotes
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man… — Francis Bacon
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. — Aeschylus
- One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. — Anthony Burgess
- 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
- Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose… — Samuel Butler
- There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. — Andrew Carnegie
- O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are! — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these,… — Emma Lazarus