Pity Quotes
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Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?
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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.
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
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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.
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
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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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Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
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Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
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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.
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
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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.
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One grows out of pity when it's useless.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.
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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.
