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Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton

“Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.”

Cost Pity

Book:Josh Billings' Wit and Humor

Source: Josh Billings' Wit and Humor

“If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.”

Ifs Feels Self Sometimes Feelings Problem Would Be Hate Difficult Sorry Pity Self Pity Hate Myself

Author:Julie Nixon Eisenhower

“Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.”

Earth Air Tomorrow Pity Self Pity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game”

Two Play Three Games Pity Self Pity Bad Games

Author:Jose Mourinho

“I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a spiritual way of living in the world, you must be lighthearted and carefree, have humor, be able to tolerate ambiguity and embrace uncertainty, and be forgiving of yourself and everybody else.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Self Able Spiritual Turns Importance Embrace Forgiving Pity Pursue Uncertainty Mask Tolerate Seriousness Ambiguity Self Pity Self-importance Carefree

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.”

Knows Soul Perspective Envy Pity Reckoning Success Or Failure

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.”

Life Moments Spiritual Everyday Pity Confusion Spiritual Life Everyday Life

Author:Robert Powell

“It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.”

Men Looks Book Humanity Justice Example Honor Pity Heroism Agnostic Justice Truth

Author:M. M. Mangasarian

“The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.”

Giving Sometimes Done Seems Form Desire Artist Modern Painting Illusion Longing Creator Rage Pity Posts Collaboration Good Will Modernism Post Modernism

Author:John Berger

“When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!”

Men Firsts Thousand Presses Pity Apples Adam Cant Adamant

Author:Thomas Hood

“The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!”

People Knows Men Needs Wells Littles Enough Religion Men And Women Pity Veils Hysterical Little Man Adornment

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.”

World God One Day Weak Accounts Corners Legs Pity Weary Chimneys Fretting

Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.”

Way Needs Self Choices Grief Poverty Ignorance Shame Pity Better Ways Self Pity Way To Live Lynching Wallowing

Book:A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.”

Self Winning Sound Emotion Ugly Pity Self Pity Sour Cloaks Whining

Author:Og Mandino

“One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In fact, the Indian plays much the same role in our society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner’s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.”

“The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.”

Art Pain Artist Speak Wonder Our Lives Mystery Capacity Endure Delight Pity Appeals Dependent Acquisition

Author:Joseph Conrad

“To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

States Feelings Pain Pleasure Mankind Solitude Exciting Pity Fortunate Retreat Gloomy Exclusion Tasting Felicity Celibacy

Author:Samuel Johnson

“It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.”

Feelings Misery Charity Pity Philanthropy Selflessness Disinterest Personal Feelings

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.”

States Earth Wish Poor Stupid Consequence Regard Charity Pity Weather Nonsense Philanthropy Distress Selflessness Objections Abolish Bad Weather Disinterest

Book:Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What

Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What

“The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'”

Needs Should Kind Ready Revenge Treated Pity Wrath Gentleness Offenders Tact

Book:Meditations (Diversion Classics)

Source: Meditations (Diversion Classics)

“An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.”

Giving Firsts Littles Beautiful Girl Jesus Flower Angel Winter Pity Weed Legends Transformed Infant Shepherds Beautiful Flower

Author:Allen Lacy

“But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.”

Should Body Asks Sound Fronts Pity Tides Our Words Octopus

Author:Marcel Proust

“How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.”

People Men Trying He Man Labor Burden Valuable Favors Pity Protest Vigor Servitude Loathe

Author:Andre Breton

“Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”

Doe Self Stage Positive Pity Uncomfortable Feathers Self Pity Mattresses

Author:Maya Angelou

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