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• Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

  James Agate

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

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• Pity is love in undress.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Love

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• Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

  James Joyce

  Feelings, Mind, Suffering

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

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• Pity is akin to love.

  Thomas Southerne

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”

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• Never take yourself too seriously.

  Ariana Grande

  Laugh At Yourself, Whining, Predicaments

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• If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

  Aesop

  Hair, Water, Wish

  Aesop (1850). “Fables of AEsop and others”, p.300, Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [and 18 others] ...

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• How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

  Jane Porter

  Eye, Hands, Voice

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.114

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• Pity is always twinged with disgust.

  Daniel Quinn

  Disgusting

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• We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Suffering, Needs, May

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.235

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• They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

  Arthur Helps

  Poor, Relation, Ifs

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  Vicki Baum

  Feelings

  Vicki Baum, Margaret Leland Goldsmith (1931). “Results of an Accident”

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• It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

  Willa Cather

  Vanity, Easy, Has Beens

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.73, Wildside Press LLC

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• A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Doors

  Henry Ward Beecher (1875). “Norwood, Or, Village Life in New England”, p.277

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• Do not pity the dead, Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Inspirational Harry Potter, Potters

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• I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
  And if I die no soul will pity me:
  And wherefore should they, since that I myself
  Find in myself no pity to myself?

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Soul, Despair

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 201

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• However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

  Pope Pius XI

  Mother, May, Life Is

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• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Anger, Hatred

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• The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

  Willa Gibbs

  Self, Essentials, Teeth

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• A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Written

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• Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

  Francis Beaumont

  Path, Companionship

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• Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Guests, Welcome, Gentle

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.73

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• A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mad, Sometimes

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”

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• Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Degenerates, Human Nature, Poor

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• Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Passion, Hands, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.33

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• None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

  Robert Herrick

  Snares

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