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It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?
Beware of Pity (1939)
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
Beware of Pity (1939)
People who are so much at the mercy of their moods should never be given serious responsibilities.
Beware of Pity (1939)
A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army.
Beware of Pity (1939)
The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget.
Beware of Pity (1939)
If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.
Beware of Pity (1939)
The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money.
Beware of Pity (1939)
A doctor should never try to cure the incurable.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
Beware of Pity (1939)
The word 'service' comes from serving, and serving means being dependent.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Inevitably, in the secret chemistry of the emotions the feeling of pity for a sick person is imperceptibly bound up with tenderness.
Beware of Pity (1939)
After experiencing profound emotions, one sleeps profoundly.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.
Beware of Pity (1939)
Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted.
Beware of Pity (1939)
One can run away from anything but oneself.
Beware of Pity (1939)
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.
Beware of Pity (1939)
The feeling of self-assurance derived from physical achievement always transfers itself to the mental sphere.
Beware of Pity (1939)
But it is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.
Beware of Pity (1939)