#wretch

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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


#brain #driven #gave #glimpse #heaven

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.


Bertrand Russell


#bear #below #coward #equal #ever

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.


David Sedaris


#books #i #like #lives #nonfiction

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.


Logan P. Smith


#being rich #live #people #rich #rich people

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.


Giacomo Casanova


#course #delights #hatred #his #kills

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.


Walter Scott


#death-and-dying #pride #walter-scott #wretch #death

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.


Augusto Roa Bastos


#forgets #happens #memory #remembers #them

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.


Empedocles


#beliefs #dark #divine #gained #gods

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


#day #discomfort #forced #habitually #hope

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.


Hannah More


#cannot #decreed #digs #fatigued #fed