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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardner
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Mark Twain
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Christianity is called the religion of pity. -Friedrich Nietzsche
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I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare
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No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.

William Shakespeare
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Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. -William Shakespeare
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann
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Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it? -Matt Groening
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I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

Anita Roddick
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

Helen Keller
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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. -Lyman Abbott
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Stephen Vincent Benet
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The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity a one-dream man.

Bob Goddard
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Though it is a pity that these type of premises get targeted. Who are they damaging? It's the kids who miss out. -Rob Janes
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First of all, I have to thank Milan, but I know that the result has been the fruit of my efforts and my hard work. It has been a fantastic season, and I'm happy. It's a pity about the Champions League final.

Hernan Crespo
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It doesn't help to wallow in self-pity. We're trying.

Cindy Salerno
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There's no point beating up on Fraser Institute. This is people's perception about Colorado. It's a pity because we certainly have the mineral deposits here. -Stan Dempsey
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What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith
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Of course you feel extra pity for Tommy ending with losing on penalties. In a way it's always easier to lose a game when the other team is better and you can accept it afterward. So it was pity for Tommy, an extra pity.

Lars Lagerback
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If the government insists on this point, it will be a pity. -Margaret Ng
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson
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It's a pity for us to have missed the chance of winning the second game, but for the player herself, she had done enough of her job. -Lu Yuansheng
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I know I'm not that great a singer, so he had pity on me and let me in his group. I helped out with managing the group, too.

Jon Drummond
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And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness.

William Forrest Winter
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But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die. -Beilby Porteus
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended a.

John Herschel
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Last night was disappointing. But you can wallow in your self pity or you can go out there and do it again -- and I did.

Giaan Rooney
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Not once, during this whole thing, did he ever seek pity. That just isn't who Bailey is. -Shannon Bailey
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