Pity Quotes
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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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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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
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Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?
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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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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
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An injured man must not feel pity for himself, otherwise he will live in sorrow for the rest of his life.
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Pity's tears are spontaneous.
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Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
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Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
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Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
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An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
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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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There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
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But very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
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I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.
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You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!
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Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.
