“ More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. ”
- Ojibwa Saying- Copy
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“ We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing — deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. ”
- John Galsworthy- Copy
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“ Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love. ”
- Robert Cormier- Copy
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“ I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. ”
- James Agate- Copy
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“ I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing; I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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