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• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Money, Inspirational Life, Men

  "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 may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sympathy, True Friend, Giving

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Mistake

  "Fictional character: Gloria Price". "Killer's Kiss", www.imdb.com. 1955.

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• What is pity but the vice of kindness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Kindness, Vices

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• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

  Mark Twain

  Jealousy, Envy, Gossip

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart

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• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Eye, Self, Soul

  "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897)

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• The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

  David Brainerd

  Father, Heart, Recovery

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.13

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• The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Mind, Age

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.

  Curt Siodmak

  Boys, Devil, Arriving

  "Fictional character: Frank Raymond". "Invisible Agent", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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• It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Dark, Self

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• WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separates us from roaches

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye.

  Frances Hardinge

  Kindness, Soul, Humanity

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• Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Honesty, Men, Self

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Simple, Compassion

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1272, Wordsworth Editions

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• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

  Andre Maurois

  Happiness, Compassion, Self

  ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”

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• Those who do not complain are never pitied.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Ironic, Prejudice

  Jane Austen, Pamela Jane, Deborah Guyol (2015). “Pride and Prejudice and Kitties: A Cat-Lover's Romp through Jane Austen's Classic”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  "How to Help Someone Who is Depressed, or Suicidal : Practical Suggestions from a Survivor". Book by John Cook, 1993.

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• Pity melts the mind to love.

  John Dryden

  Life, Love Life, Mind

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.593, Pearson Education

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• Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

  Josh Billings

  Cost

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.164

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• There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Compassion, Sight

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

  Cyril Connolly

  Inspirational, Self, Optimism

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

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Self, Doe

  1974 Gather Together In My Name, ch.6.

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• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  Manly Hall

  Blessing, Self, Boredom

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• A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

  Arthur Helps

  Mixtures, Recipes, Admiration

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