Alice Tisdale Hobart Quotes
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Oscar Wilde
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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
Walter de La Mare
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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
Emile Zola
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
Rita Mae Brown
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.
Ernest Hemingway
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
Vincent Van Gogh
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No oath can be too binding for a lover.
Sophocles
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.
Empedocles
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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law
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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
Lao Tzu
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I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.
Ethel Waters
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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
William Shakespeare
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I made a mistake, and I'm going to rectify that. Whether the money is justified or not is something that should be discussed.
Eric Wilson
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Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.
Charlotte Bronte
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Nothing is so binding as pity.
Alice Tisdale Hobart