Quotes with wretch

  • You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.

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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Marquis de Sade Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Edmund Spenser It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
    Edmund Spenser
    English poet (1552 - 1599)
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  • Juvenal Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Seneca Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Samuel Johnson Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Hannah More 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
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Carolyn See You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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