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.
Blaise Pascal
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Victims take pity on victims.
Antonio Porchia
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I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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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.
Kristen Stewart
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All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
William Shakespeare
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There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
Cary Elwes
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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Nothing is so binding as pity.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
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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.
William Cowper
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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.
George Washington
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Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
Elaine A. Cannon
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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.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
Bill Vaughan
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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
William Blake
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
William Shakespeare
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
George Bernard Shaw
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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!
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
Ava Gardner
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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.
Oswald Chambers
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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
D. H. Lawrence
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
Mahatma Gandhi