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wretchedness
1. A city might, in this manner, grow up to great wealth and splendour, while not only the country in its neighbourhood, but all those to which it traded, were in poverty and wretchedness
2. He spoke with the weight and wretchedness of veterans of storied conflicts from decades past
3. “Legend has it, before you were born, that there was to come a saviour, a vampire that would rescue us from our wretchedness and teach us of how to live with mortals in peace
4. CAST out the wretchedness and wickedness
5. But if he turns away from Him and neglects His Orders, he will lead a life of wretchedness and woe as the Almighty says: “He, who gives no heed to My warning shall live in woe”
6. “To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures
7. But to be honest, when I see the wretchedness of this insane war
8. Had that opposer adopted their conduct, he would not have incurred misery and wretchedness
9. but those who desire the lowly life depriving themselves of the graces and blessings of true belief in God and of rendering good actions those are the people of wretchedness and meanness, therefore the Almighty God says:
10. They reveal to them that their misery and unhappiness are ascribed to the prosperous class so that getting rid of it means uprooting the social oppression, and consequently annihilating the misery, poverty and wretchedness
11. Indeed, the Holy Qur'an has come with the highest and most perfect level of demonstration, organization and legislation, and within the limits that the Almighty has accepted to mankind where man should not turn wholly to the lower life and let it absorb all his bodily, spiritual, and intellectual abilities, for the foundation of the religious society and the atmosphere which man should live in and which agrees with his beliefs is that whose civilized standard should not come to the level of complicating and consuming all man's powers for only his lower life, since reaching such level produces dissension, injustice, pain, and wretchedness, exactly as we see nowadays, and such standard of living is considered corruption and causes corrupting, contenting oneself with the present life, and turning away from the aim which man has been created for
12. As to the word "then he has gone astray", it is derived from 'straying', which is, converting or turning away from a high state including happiness and goodness to a lower one causing discomforts and wretchedness
13. God says: "But the generations who succeeded them neglected communicating with Al'lah and succumbed to temptations, these shall assuredly go astray": that is: they shall find degradation from that position had been to their forefathers before due to neglecting communicating with Al'lah and following desires and they shall face troubles and wretchedness
14. They will then become subjected to wretchedness, and acquire their morals and vulgar manners from the street
15. They must then link up with those who see by God’s light, and turn away from the path of wretchedness
16. But we wonder: has the devil ever harbored good intentions? And has he ever tried to do good for anyone?? He is pleased only with wretchedness, disease, and the pain of others: “He said: ‘Provider! Since you have led me astray, I will adorn to them (mankind) this life on earth and tempt them all, except your true obedient followers from among them!’ ”
17. Meanwhile, she was not able to sleep or even rest, for the moment that she would fall asleep, the devil would come to her, causing nightmares, exhaustion, grief, and distress, until her life had become filled with unhappiness, wretchedness, fear, and a spiritual agony incomparable to the physical pain caused by disease
18. Fear is the root cause of all wretchedness in the world which
19. And would not share that wretchedness
20. My soul rebelled both at the wretchedness and at the rusks
21. In her wretchedness a doubt stole across her mind as to whether Herr Dremmel was worth this; was anything, in fact, worth fighting about? And with one's father
22. Fritzing coming in a few minutes later without the cook he had hoped to find, was glad enough of Tussie's sardines and biscuits--they were ginger biscuits--and while he ate them, abstractedly and together, Tussie looked on and wondered in spite of his wretchedness what the combination could possibly taste like
23. She had, I say, been wretched enough; but what was this wretchedness to that which followed? In her ignorance she thought it the worst day she had ever had, the most tormented; and when she went to bed she sought comfort in its very badness by telling herself that it was over and could never come again
24. This, through all her wretchedness, through all her horror, for beating in her ears were two words over and over again, _Lucy, Vera_--_Lucy, Vera_ struck her as so absurd, the vision of herself, more naturally nimble, going on up the stairs just out of Wemyss's reach, with him heavily pursuing her, till among the attics at the top he couldn't but run her to earth in a cistern, that she had great difficulty in not spilling over into a ridiculous, hysterical laugh
25. They then went out and did all they could to add to that wretchedness
26. discussesconditions of wretchedness in the world about him
27. movements; all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to
28. And it might sound cynical but it is a blessing, finally, to forget such things as the wasted life of Andrew, the pain he caused to others and his own wretchedness
29. I was depressed and I felt that the time had come to confront the anguish, the affliction and wretchedness that were consuming me unbearably all these years
30. “In my time of wretchedness, I thought of you
31. numbers? Abusing the creative powers of life, but this wretchedness gave a new meaning
32. mouth may, on account of the wretchedness or the woe thereof, give an account not tell of it
33. themselves the wretchedness of their ways and those around them
34. It was all I could manage to say, desperate to understand how one could come to such a state of wretchedness
35. “Hell is wide without measure, and deep and bottomless; full of incomparable fire, for no earthly fire may be compared therewith; full of stench intolerable for no living thing on earth might endure it; full of unutterable sorrow for no mouth may, on account of the wretchedness or the woe thereof, give an account not tell of it
36. "It's over," he was saying, as if any of this wretchedness could possibly come to an end
37. observe, that this was a wretchedness of situation peculiar to my sex
38. wretchedness of unprotected infancy, till sympathy with Jemima changed to
39. mingle in social communion! What indeed can equal the wretchedness of that
40. With difficulty however could she prevent her from following him herself; and to persuade her to check her agitation, to wait, at least, with the appearance of composure, till she might speak to him with more privacy and more effect, was impossible; for Marianne continued incessantly to give way in a low voice to the misery of her feelings, by exclamations of wretchedness
41. Marianne had promised to be guided by her mother's opinion, and she submitted to it therefore without opposition, though it proved perfectly different from what she wished and expected, though she felt it to be entirely wrong, formed on mistaken grounds, and that by requiring her longer continuance in London it deprived her of the only possible alleviation of her wretchedness, the personal sympathy of her mother, and doomed her to such society and such scenes as must prevent her ever knowing a moment's rest
42. Her wretchedness I could have borne, but her passion--her malice--At all events it must be appeased
43. Take the diamond, then, and sell it; it is worth fifty thousand francs, and I repeat my wish that this sum may suffice to release you from your wretchedness
44. And now this had happened - to plunge them back into the abyss of wretchedness from which they had so recently escaped
45. Nothing delighted the childish minds of these poor people so much as listening to or reading extracts from the speeches of such men as these; so in order to amuse them, every now and then, in the midst of all the wretchedness, some of the great statesmen made `great speeches' full of cunning phrases intended to hoodwink the fools who had elected them
46. When I awoke without having parted in my sleep with the perception of my wretchedness, the clocks of the Eastward churches were striking five, the candles were wasted out, the fire was dead, and the wind and rain intensified the thick black darkness
47. No one will be asked to sacrifice himself for the benefit of others or to love his neighbours better than himself as is the case under the present system, which demands that the majority shall unselfishly be content to labour and live in wretchedness for the benefit of a few
48. Look well at that man; it is he who raised your father's head on the point of a spear; it is he who sold us; it is he who forsook us! Look well at his right hand, on which he has a large wound; if you forgot his features, you would know him by that hand, into which fell, one by one, the gold pieces of the merchant El-Kobbir!" I know him! Ah, let him say now if he does not recognize me!' Each word fell like a dagger on Morcerf, and deprived him of a portion of his energy; as she uttered the last, he hid his mutilated hand hastily in his bosom, and fell back on his seat, overwhelmed by wretchedness and despair
49. " The fresh air and the shame he felt at having exposed himself before his servants, partly recalled his senses, but the ride was short, and as he drew near his house all his wretchedness revived
50. Come, then, thou regenerate man, thou extravagant prodigal, thou awakened sleeper, thou all-powerful visionary, thou invincible millionaire,—once again review thy past life of starvation and wretchedness, revisit the scenes where fate and misfortune conducted, and where despair received thee
