#wretched

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. ↗

— John Major

#argument #biggest #biggest mistake #both #both sides

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#cannot #community #escape #furthermore #heaven

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#come #ready #these #until #wretched

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#countless #cumulative #develop #efforts #even

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#busy #character #deity #goodness #greatest