Pity Quotes
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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
William Blake
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
Rita Mae Brown
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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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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
Bill Vaughan
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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.
Abraham Coles
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Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
William Ernest Henley
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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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I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
William Cowper
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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.
Chenjerai Hove
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
Baruch Spinoza
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
Sara Willis
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On her mastectomy: Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.
Betty Rollin
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Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
Lao Tzu
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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare
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Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?
Dan Castellaneta
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O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!
William Shakespeare
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Pity those who don't feel anything at all
Sarah J. Maas
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It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
Terry Eagleton
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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!
Mr. T
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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.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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But very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
George Eliot
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Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
William Shakespeare