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• This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sad, Heart, Love Is

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Sonnets”, p.140, Pushkin Press

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• I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

  Rose McGowan

  Stupid, Idiot, Deals

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.

  Tito Colliander

  Reality, Self, Evil

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.18, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.

  Paul Auster

  Dream, Father, Book

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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• When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

  Paul Auster

  Father, Important, Looks

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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• This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.

  Daniel Webster

  Book, Men, Years

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• I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Men, Age, Doe

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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• Pity swells the tide of love.

  Edward Young

  Love, Tides

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts”, p.261

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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

  Love, Christian, Religious

  William Law (1802). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians, to which is Added Some Account of the Author and Three Letters to a Friend”, p.24

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• Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

  Robert Nathan

  Pain, Believe, Giving

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• Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals is love. To survive and to celebrate, propagate and to love life. To be the best we can be - the right to be here and the responsibility to be the best dog or bear or horse that they can be. Humans have the tendency to self pity that other animals don't indulge in.

  Matthew Fox

  Dog, Horse, Responsibility

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• It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

  Graham Greene

  Bible, People, Picks

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

  Jessamyn West

  Hate, Creating, Mind

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

  Anthony Powell

  Self, Giving, Understanding

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• None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

  Donald Evans

  Loyalty, Wine, Heaven

  Donald Evans (1919). “Ironica”

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• Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

  Rumi

  Night, Sea, Rivers

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• It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.

  Frederick Douglass

  Giving, Justice, Legs

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Believe, Self

  "Gather Together in My Name". Book by Maya Angelou, p. 17, 1974.

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• Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

  B. B. King

  Unique

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• I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

  Helen Keller

  Taken, Mean, Eye

  "Three Days to See". Book by Helen Keller, 1933.

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• Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Classic, Kind, Retarded

  Source: www.pbs.org

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