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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
— Edward Young
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
— Baruch Spinoza
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
— H.L. Mencken
Abject fear of pagan gods is little different from abject worship of them.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
— Henry A. Kissinger
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
— Alexander Pope
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
— Seneca The Younger
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
— William Hazlitt
Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.
— Assegid Habtewold
When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he ...
— Emily Dickinson
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
— Kirk Douglas
It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you.
— Stuart Roosa
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
— F.B. Meyer
She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.
— David Foster Wallace
The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Jacqs' attempts at initiating sexual relationships usually involved either money or abject failure.
— Lyn Gala
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
— Seneca The Younger
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.
— Thomas A Kempis
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
— Mason Cooley
The country will survive Obama, but it cannot survive the abject ignorance that elected him.
— Rush Limbaugh
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
— Oliver Goldsmith
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
— Viola Davis
He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
— Thomas A Kempis
Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
— John O. Brennan
If you want to be a private eye, you have to get used to such things as hideous depression and abject despair.
— Arthur Byron Cover
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
— Winston Churchill
They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
— Tryon Edwards
"The only abject failure my mind can think of is ones failure to spend Eternity in God's Heaven" ~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods
There is no harvest without hard work, therefore never expect chance to solve your problems of abject need for you. You must take deliberate actions!
— Israelmore Ayivor
My nose was running, I couldn't see worth shit and my brain was still frozen in abject terror.
— Karen Chance
The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.
— Nathan Runkle
That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.
— Walter Moers
