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pitiful
«Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife»
«?When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites?to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance?there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.?»
Author: Carlos Castaneda
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
all four, assurance, assurances, blundering, fulfilled, pitiful, regrets, requisites, suffers, wide-awake
«Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.»
«Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: / Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.»
«Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''»
«Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
assuming, besides, incompetence, pitiful
«Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Teenage
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, chuckle, chuckles, dense, denser, egotism, intolerance, nineteen, opaque, pathetic, perception, pitiful, self assertion, unconsciousness
«It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.»
Author: Publilius Syrus
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pitiful
«Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
bear on, bring to, bring to bear, inept, pitiful