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• Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

  Edward Bond

  Men, Mad, Awkward

  Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

  Ruben Dario

  One Day, Inward, Sphinx

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• I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Player, Guy

  "A Tribute to Barack Obama's Once Great Basketball Skills" by Jack Moore, www.gq.com. August 4, 2015.

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• The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Wheels, Mercy

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Lying, Eye

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• But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

  Beilby Porteus

  Men, Heaven, Lessons

  William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.288

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• Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Beautiful, Dream, Religion

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• The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

  John Scalzi

  Greed, Want, Republican

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• The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.

  S.M. Stirling

  Song, Moving, Eye

  "The Sword of the Lady". Book by S. M. Stirling, 2009.

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

  Charlie Brooker

  Eye, Bells, Association

  "Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe", Season 4, Episode 1, September 25, 2007.

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• Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Justice, Forbearance, Should

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• When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Beautiful, Art, Character

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• Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Dream, Party, Goal

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.

  Flora Thompson

  Country, Past, Prejudice

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.

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• If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly feel the pity of things. The beauty of life is in its impermanence. Man lives the longest of all living things... and even one year lived peacefully seems very long. Yet for such as love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Dream, Night, Men

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• The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity that more of them aren't gay, because of the greater compassion they could bring to the task, it might endear him to liberal Catholic commentators , but it would make him something other than a Catholic, in the true sense.

  Declan Lynch

  Gay, Compassion, Catholic

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• During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

  Daley Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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• These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1775). “The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...”, p.5

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• Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Believe, People

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• Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Pain, Heart

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.67, Discovery House

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• A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Tears, Unhappy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.130

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• Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Clever, People, Talent

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Christmas Books of Mr. M.a.titmarsh: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.220, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Grief, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Jane Howard (2012). “Getting It Right”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Hands, Wave

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

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• We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gun, Boys, Hunting

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.

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