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• For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Lying, Eye

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• Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Beautiful, Dream, Religion

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• The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

  John Scalzi

  Greed, Want, Republican

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• Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Dream, Party, Goal

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.

  Flora Thompson

  Country, Past, Prejudice

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.

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• If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly feel the pity of things. The beauty of life is in its impermanence. Man lives the longest of all living things... and even one year lived peacefully seems very long. Yet for such as love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Dream, Night, Men

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• The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity that more of them aren't gay, because of the greater compassion they could bring to the task, it might endear him to liberal Catholic commentators , but it would make him something other than a Catholic, in the true sense.

  Declan Lynch

  Gay, Compassion, Catholic

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• Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Believe, People

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• Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Pain, Heart

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.67, Discovery House

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• A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Tears, Unhappy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.130

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• Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Clever, People, Talent

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Christmas Books of Mr. M.a.titmarsh: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.220, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Hands, Wave

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

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• Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Order, Sick, Grace

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.186

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• If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Angel, Reflection

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.205

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• The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Men, Good Man

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• Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

  Honore de Balzac

  Gratitude, Moving, Winter

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• Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

  Honore de Balzac

  Charm, Sweetest

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• No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

  Honore de Balzac

  Society, Victim, Protect

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• In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Fall, People

  Benjamin Franklin (2005). “A Benjamin Franklin reader: the essential writings of a colonial sage ; Autobiography, Wit & wisdom”

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• There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Mirth, Innocence

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.282

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• A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

  Joseph Addison

  Sympathy, Brother, Suffering

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.175

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• Through heaven and earth
  God's will moves freely, and I follow it,
  As color follows light. He overflows
  The firmamental walls with deity,
  Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,
  His pity may do so, His angels must,
  Whene'er He gives them charges.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Moving, Angel

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.28

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• But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
  [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Children, Childhood, Age

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• O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Writing

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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• self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Sacrifice, Self, Deception

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.98, Hachette UK

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