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34 quotesIt is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
Mercy
Lyman Abbott
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Patriotism
Joseph Addison
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Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
Epitaphs
James Agate
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Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
Pity
Sir Edwin Arnold
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Honesty
Stephen Vincent Benet
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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
Poverty and The Poor
Bible
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Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
Pity
Josh Billings
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Lovers
Elizabeth Bowen
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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
Pity
Albert Camus
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Law and Lawyers
Miguel De Cervantes
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Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
Pity
Charles Caleb Colton
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
Slavery
William Cowper
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
Conceit
George Eliot
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Pity
George Eliot
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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.
Learning
Lucius C. Falkland
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When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.
Leaders and Leadership
French Proverb
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Pity
Oliver Goldsmith
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Complaints and Complaining
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Love
William Law
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Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Moon
Amy Lowell
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Charity
Horace Mann
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Affection
Andre Maurois
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Pity is treason.
Pity
Maximilien Robespierre
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Sympathy
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Counsel
Sallust
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun