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Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
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Virgil Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! Leonardo da Vinci By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. Adolf Hitler Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. Eric Hoffer Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. Samuel Butler 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 Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. Aeschylus Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Mikhail Bakunin For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. Sophocles Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. Nahum Tate 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 Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. Empedocles He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. William Hazlitt How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. Alice James I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands. Karin Boye If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me. Charles Mackay 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 Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius 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 |
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