I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
To what base Ends, and by what abject Ways,
Are Mortals urg'd thro' Sacred Lust of praise!
How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger death how abject in the presence of any all forms of hereditary rank.
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
Those who are here can place no hope in death,
and their blind life is so abject that they
are envious of every other fate.
Disgrace not so your king,
That he should be so abject, base, and poor,
To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
If thy heart were right, then every creature would be a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine. There is no creature so small and abject, but it reflects the goodness of God.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia. The terrible military machine, which we and the rest of the civilized world so foolishly, so supinely, so insensately allowed the Nazi gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing cannot stand idle lest it rust or fall to pieces.... So now this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation.
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet Anything.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
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