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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Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
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Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.
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Nothing is so binding as pity.
