A Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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