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Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery. — Charles Spurgeon

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. — Thomas Carlyle

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume. — Eugene Delacroix

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. — Peter Paul Rubens

She saw only that he was quiet and onubtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation. — Jane Austen

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. — Oliver Goldsmith

She was a failure. That's what she thought. She had come to the forest to see the world, but all she found was wretchedness. — Robert Beatty

So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack — Melissa De La Cruz

Let not the general representation unto thyself of the wretchedness of this our mortal life, trouble thee. — Marcus Aurelius

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. — Matt LeBlanc

Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves. — Blaise Pascal

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. — Henry Highland Garnet

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

The deepest wretchedness often results from a perpetual continuation of petty trials. — L.G. Abell

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran. — Anwar Sadat

Haunted by my own wretchedness, I know I will die with great regrets. — R.P. McCabe

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness. — Robertson Davies

Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart? — Edward T. Welch

The best proof adduced of the wretchedness of life is that derived from contemplating its glory. — Soren Kierkegaard

Thy wretchedness weighs upon me, so that it to weep invites me. — Dante Alighieri

The true religion would have to teach greatness and wretchedness, inspire self-esteem and self-contempt, love and hate. — Blaise Pascal

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility — George Santayana

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness. — Thomas Jefferson

To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness. — David McCullough

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood — J. Tyson-Capper

Ah, God, my God, what wretchedness I suffered in that world, and how I trifled with!
-St. Augustine on school — Augustine Of Hippo

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement. — Francois Fenelon

Humility exalteth man to the heaven of glory and power, whilst pride abaseth him to the depths of wretchedness and degradation. — Baha'u'llah

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore De Balzac

Past happiness augments present wretchedness. — Publilius Syrus

The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness. — Dante Alighieri

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness. — Simone Weil

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do! — Christopher Pike

What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven. — Mary Oliver

You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling. — Anthony Liccione

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. — Thomas Jefferson

There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness. — Dante Alighieri

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness. — Ludwig Von Mises

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. — Beth Henley

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. — Pema Chodron

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity. — John Of The Cross

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain. — Siegfried Sassoon

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. — Thomas Sprat

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success. — Mason Cooley

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art. — Rembrandt

It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by becoming bearable. — Victor Hugo

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things. — Blaise Pascal

there is always more wretchedness below than there is brotherhood above, — Victor Hugo

Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore,
Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wretched are those preoccupied with insulting, belittling and discrediting others. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn