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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote: 'Nothing is so wretched or foolish ...'

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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
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I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
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Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.
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Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.


Pope Francis
There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.
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What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.


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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.


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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.


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It takes madness to find out madness.


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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.


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Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.


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