#wretched

The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#wisdom #wretchedness #education

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #eyes #ignorance #mislead #mortals

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched. ↗

— John Webster

#men #most #often #valued #wretched

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#grow up #hands #life #muddled #must

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. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#how #little #little time #live #matter

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#completely #few #hope #low #none

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#child #ills #love #man #suffers

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

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#happy #i #king #me #perhaps