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• I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to discover any others.

  Richard Denney

  People, World, Stuck

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• Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows how to govern everything concerning us. Nothing is impossible for Him, but everything is subject to His will. We must also realize that everything He does is for our benefit and we must accept it with thankfulness...as from a benefactor and a good lord even if is troublesome. For everything is done with right judgment, and God, Who is merciful, does not overlook even the smallest sadness that we suffer.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Sadness, Compassion, Words Of Wisdom

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• We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Respect, People, Community

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• When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Girl, Moving, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

  James Fox

  Self, Giving, Thank God

  James Fox (2012). “White Mischief”, p.195, Random House

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• What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

  Philip Massinger

  Action, Speak, Should

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar (1813). “The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence”, p.281

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• Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.

  James Whistler

  Art, Independent, Eye

  James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Dream, Food, Years

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.393, Lulu.com

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• At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Gentleman, Next

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• The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Doors, Self

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• Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

  Walter Scott

  Winning, Hands, Mind

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.229

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• I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Self

  William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237

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• A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Honor, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”

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• [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Art, Pain

  Joseph Conrad (2007). “The Portable Conrad”, p.48, Penguin

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• Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Men, People, Mount Rushmore

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• What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

  Claude Monet

  Men, Painting, Said

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• [Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Love, Writing, Play

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• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  Saint Basil

  Fall, Utterance, Ghost

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• Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife

  Joaquin Miller

  Brother, War, Heart

  Joaquin Miller (1872). “Joaquin: Et Al”, p.49

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• The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Yoga, Self

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• We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Indulge In

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• Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

  Criss Jami

  People, Treats, Looking Down

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.8, Criss Jami

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• What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Cutting, Men, Yawning

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• Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

  E. M. Forster

  Self, Smell, People

  "Commonplace Book". Book by E. M. Forster, 1985.

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• Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.

  James Anthony Froude

  Angel, Thinking, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.37

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