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    Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.

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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

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Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is read more

Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Pity Quotes,
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However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, read more

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent

by Pope Pius Xi Found in: Pity Quotes,
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us

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

by George Eliot Found in: Pity Quotes,
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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 read more

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

by John W. Gardner Found in: Pity Quotes,
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Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

by Edna St. Vincent Millay Found in: Pity Quotes,
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We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.

by Jean-jacques Rousseau Found in: Pity Quotes,
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware

by Robert Herrick Found in: Pity Quotes,
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

by Don Marquis Found in: Pity Quotes,
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