A Quote by Juvenal
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
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The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.
It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you.
My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.
There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.
Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
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