Pity Quotes
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.
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I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
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I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being.
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
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Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!
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Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.
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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
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Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in
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Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
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Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
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Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.