Alice Tisdale Hobart Quotes
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
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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?
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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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.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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.
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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.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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No oath can be too binding for a lover.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
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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.
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Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in
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If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.
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I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the best players in the world so just competing against one another and getting in there and pushing each other around and getting ready for that physical style of game coming up, we have to play hard and pretend it's a game.
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Nothing is so binding as pity.
