#pity

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.


Samuel Johnson


#contempt #excite #fortune #more #pity

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.


Helen Keller


#enemy #never #our #self-pity #wise

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.


Martin Luther King, Jr.


#concern #demands #giving #impersonal #little

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.


Karen Kingsbury


#celebrities #deep #destroyed #developed #everyone

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.


Stanley Kubrick


#idealist #idiot #pity #village #would

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.


Marat Safin


#down #drain #every #getting #going

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.


Sallust


#consult #doubtful #friendship #hatred #matters

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.


Robert Falcon Scott


#cannot #course #end #far #getting

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.


Richard Brinsley Sheridan


#nature #never #pity #those #who

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.


Stendhal


#first #his #loved #man #pity