"I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies……" — Henry Clay
"I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind …."
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26 Quotes by Henry Clay
Henry Clay has 26 quotes on this site.
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited,…
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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are…
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I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West,…
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
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The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its…
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The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
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I'd rather be right than President.
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An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
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A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe…
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More Commiseration Quotes
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New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
— Herb Caen
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We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either…
— John Keats
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When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning…
— Mencius
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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely.…
— William Shakespeare
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The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are…
— William McFee
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She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond…
— Kate Chopin
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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…
— Charles Dickens
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The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us…
— Amy Carmichael
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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…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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