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Letter "P" » pity
«Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.»
Author: St. Francis of Assisi
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compassion, creatures, exclude, excludes, excluding, fellow, Fellow Creature, likewise, pity, shelter
«Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?»
«Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.»
«'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious»
«As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
admire, birthright, extraordinarily, pity, possibly, pottage, private, sold, terms, virtuous
«Friends help; others pity.»
«It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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Age,
Experience,
Youth
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gains, gradually, loses, pity, youth
«A snake deserves no pity»
«He who would have others pity him must pity others»
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