Pity Quotes
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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
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He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.
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All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
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Victims take pity on victims.
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
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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.
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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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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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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother – love there is a good deal of curiosity.
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
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My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
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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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If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
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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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While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
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Nothing is so binding as pity.
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When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.
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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
