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• It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

  H. G. Wells

  Voice, Suffering, Nerves

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.46, H. G. Wells

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• Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

  Terry Goodkind

  Guilty, Innocent, Treason

  "Faith Of The Fallen". Book by Terry Goodkind, August 22, 2000.

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• Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Giving, Doe

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Ideas, Littles, Good Work

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• Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

  Richard Kadrey

  Song, Hate, Self

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• Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Strong, Farewell

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• A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Light, Understanding

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thank You, Doe, Answers

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.81, Penguin

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• ...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -

  Nick Vujicic

  Self, Purpose, Trade

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• The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in here eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Daughter, Strong, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reform is born of need, not pity.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Reform, Needs, Born

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2016). “Life in the Iron-Mills”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.

  Michelle Black

  Differences, Lust, Masquerade

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• Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

  Augustus Hare

  Beef, Eating, Mustard

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• Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Knives, May, Sometimes

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• Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

  Bolesław Prus

  Emotion

  "The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1889.

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• Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

  Clarence Darrow

  Soul

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• Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

  Tulsidas

  Wind, Tree, Words You Speak

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• I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Science, Two

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• DO you know how people who have nothing delude themselves? You believe that there are things like truth and pity. There aren't such things. Do you still not know? Love or righteousness... strong people are the ones who can't protect those things.

  Kim Do-hoon

  Love, Strong, Drama

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• That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect... why can't I have it? Did you pity me? Up until now, I was just powerless and pitiful to you. So you thought I'd take any helping hand offered to me. Right?

  Jo Yoon-hee

  Drama, Pride, Hands

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Lying, Intuition

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit You; I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore You from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank You for the many graces You have given me, and especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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• Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen prayed for those who stoned him so that the Lord would not judge this sin against them. And so we, if we wish to retain grace, must pray for our enemies. If you do not find pity on a sinner who will suffer in flames, then you do not carry the grace of the Holy Spirit, but rather an evil spirit; and while you yet live, you must free yourself from his clutches through repentance.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Father, Flames, Evil

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• There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

  Lucas Malet

  Love, Girl, Honesty

  Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

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• I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper rewards of the military' (the desolators of the world in all ages). 'Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts.' Most learned Legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.

  John Joseph Griffin

  Military, Heart, Science

  John Joseph Griffin (1834). “Chemical Recreations: A Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments, which May be Performed with Ease, Safety, Success, and Economy ; to which is Added, The Romance of Chemistry : an Inquiry Into the Fallacies of the Prevailing Theory of Chemistry : with a New Theory and a New Nomenclature”, p.232

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