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.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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.
Paul Auster
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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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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
Lao Tzu
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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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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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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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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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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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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Victims take pity on victims.
Antonio Porchia
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All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
William Shakespeare
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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
Elaine A. Cannon
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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
William Blake
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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Nothing is so binding as pity.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
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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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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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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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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
Vladimir Nabokov