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«It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor»
Author: Edmund Spenser | About: Mind | Keywords: wretch, wretches
«Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last»
Author: Juvenal | Keywords: cabbage, cabbages, repast, repetition, served, warmed, wretch, wretches
«I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Novelist) | Keywords: beheld, monster, wretch, wretches
«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: assassins, blade, celebrate, deadly, flight, hilt, hinted, hinting, hints, inutile, irresistible, Joel, keen, mail, nurse, overthrow, rumor, serviceable, shield, slay, slender, spare, The Assassin, The Assassins, the Terror, unseen, valor, wield, wielded, wields, wretch, wretches
«Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and power, created, and preserves for a time innumerable millions, to make them miserable forever, for his own glory? Wretch! What is his glory? Is he»
Author: John Adams (President) | Keywords: Friends Forever, preserves, wretches
«Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.»
Author: Marquis De Sade (Novelist) | Keywords: area, behaving, concentrate, executioners, hell raising, incessantly, lacerate, lacerated, lacerating, on that, raises, raise hell, raising hell, renew, sensitive, torment, wounds, wretch, wretches
«Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth»
Author: Martin Luther (Priest, Scholar) | Keywords: cloth, cloths, Jews, One Piece, piece of cloth, stockings, ungodly, wretches
«O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I»
Author: Robert Burns (Poet) | About: Speech | Keywords: Art a, galling, load, wretches
«Patron: Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence and is paid with flattery»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: patron, wretches
«There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: take to, take to be, wretches
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