Pity Quotes
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Pity those who don't feel anything at all
Sarah J. Maas
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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.
Cheng Man-ch'ing
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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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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare
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O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!
William Shakespeare
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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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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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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.
Mike Mills
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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
Aristotle
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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
Rufus Choate
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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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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
Virginia Woolf
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Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.
William Shakespeare
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw
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Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
Renata Adler
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Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
William Shakespeare
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One grows out of pity when it's useless.
Albert Camus
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As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
Shirley Chisholm