“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.” IfsShouldSoulPainLeftCryFoolQuietWeightAdversityComplainingTheeGrievingMatesHelplessWretchedUnkindBruisedBereft Book:The Complete Works Source: The Complete Works
“Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.” SoulBodyHealthyWretched Author:Plato
“We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!” HeartSoulSpiritPassionCreativeMovementSourceEternalIntellectualDestructionBlindArroganceWretchedUnfathomableCircumspectionCreative PassionIntellectual Arrogance Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.” ThinkingHas BeensSoulFeelingsStrongAtheismBedPositive AtheismGiantsDogmaWretchedLiberated Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.” WantLittlesArtSoulWishVirtueHealthGoldBlessedTreasureTheeInstructionWretchedRelish Book:The Works ...: With a Life of the Author Source: The Works ...: With a Life of the Author