#wretch

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

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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#gone #heart #her #indolent #inspire

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ↗

— John McCain

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. ↗

— Thomas More

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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great #greatness #himself #itself #know

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. ↗

— Plautus

#guilt #man #mind #more #nothing

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. ↗

— Tacitus

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