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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

— Joseph Addison

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

— Anacreon

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

— Abu Bakr

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

— Richard Lamm

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

— Paulo Coelho

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

— Woodrow Wilson

It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.

— The Mighty Hannibal

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

— Ezra Taft Benson

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

— Plato

✗Opposing Perspectives

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

— Aeschylus