Reproach Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon Download Open image “There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Reproach Self Wretchedness
Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume Copy Share Image
It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name of Jesus… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
