What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and a smoky city; There are all sorts of people undone, And there is little or no fun done; Small justice shown, and still less pity.
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How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
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Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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Self pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
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A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy.
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For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
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Honesty rare as a man without self pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.
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Pity Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground!
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My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. 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 with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
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So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
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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.
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Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
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A snake deserves no pity.
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What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country
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Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
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