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Tag Name "Commiseration" (8)

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There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.
Charles Dickens
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New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
Herb Caen
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He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.
William Shakespeare
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The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration it is true, strengthening love.
Amy Carmichael
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I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….
Henry Clay
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We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.
John Keats
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The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.
William McFee