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«It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor»
Author: Edmund Spenser | About: Mind | Keywords: wretch, wretches
«Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last»
«I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created»
«To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back»
«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.»
«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter»
«The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: hailed, wretch
«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.»
«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!»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: dainties, dyspeptic, endured, gout, wretch, yonder