Chenjerai Hove Quotes
An injured man must not feel pity for himself, otherwise he will live in sorrow for the rest of his life.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
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There is no one subsists by himself alone.
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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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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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A candidate has no right to force himself upon an unwilling party.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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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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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
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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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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.
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An injured man must not feel pity for himself, otherwise he will live in sorrow for the rest of his life.
