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• Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.

  Helen Keller

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Strong

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• 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.

  Georges Bernanos

  Teenage, Knowing, Bird

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.123, Da Capo Press

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• I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Men, Feelings, Chess

  "Best Games of Chess".

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• Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Men, Two

  An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth pt. 4, ch. 9 (1929)

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• Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Being Happy, Days Like This, People

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.93, e-artnow

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• Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Kindness, Men

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1975). “The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life”

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• Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

  Michelangelo

  Men, Laughing, Erring

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella (1878). “The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella”

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• It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Thinking, Self

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• O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head. . . We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side!

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Heaven, Would Be, Sides

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• To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of pitying yourself, you should be thinking, "O ye who are left on this desolate shore still to mourn and deplore, it is I who pity you." Death will not give you any trouble if you have a clear conscience; and if you go with this thought: "Lord, I am in Thy hands."

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Thinking, Hands

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• You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Karma, Self

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• It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Spring, Fall

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3129, GENERAL PRESS

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• The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Stupid, Army

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 11 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Love, Men, Machines

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.44, U of Minnesota Press

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• But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Lying, Law

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.760, Wordsworth Editions

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• I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Love, Pain, Compassion

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.261, Da Capo Press

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• I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.

  Amy Johnson

  Mean, Thinking, Flying

  Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”

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• The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

  John Berger

  Winning, Media, Idols

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• At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, Time, Hate

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Evil, Envy

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• Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

  Joseph Hall

  Long, Envy, Care

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.296

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• If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Ideas, Numbers

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• You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough.

  Lady Gaga

  Men, Causes, Size

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• It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

  Ava Gardner

  Believe, Simple, Lust

  Ava Gardner, Peter Evans (2013). “Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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