Pity Quotes
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How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.
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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
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Victims take pity on victims.
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I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.
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There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
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All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
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Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.
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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.
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Nothing is so binding as pity.
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
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Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
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Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
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Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven in pity and compassion upon me thy servant, who humbly prostrate myself before thee.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
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Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!
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On her mastectomy: Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.
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God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.
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Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
