Pity Quotes
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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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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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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
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All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
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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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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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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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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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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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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.
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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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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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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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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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Nothing is so binding as pity.
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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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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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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
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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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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
