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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.
Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.
Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise
I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them.
My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the third hunting.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.
I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.
Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?
Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
