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O God, show compassion on the wicked. The virtuous have already been blessed by Thee in being virtuous. - Unattributed Author, Prayer of a Persian Dervish Of all emotions, pity is the hardest to endure, especially when it is deserved. Hatred is a tonic, it quickens the spirit, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills the spirit, it intensifies our weaknesses, it cripples us. - Honore de Balzac There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. - Honore de Balzac Of all the paths that lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Knight of Malta (act I, sc. 1, l. 73) Pity, some say, is the parent of future love. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Spanish Curate (act V, sc. 1) Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter), Florentine Party Pity melts the mind to love. - John Dryden For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toll and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. - John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (l. 96) More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Mill on the Floss (bk. VII, ch. I) Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. - Oliver Goldsmith Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. - Oliver Goldsmith, Hermit (st. 6) Pity and commiseration are mixed with some regard for the thing which one pities. [Fr., La plaincte et la commiseration sont meslees a quelque estimation de la chose qu'on plaind.] - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (bk. I, ch. I) At length some pity warm'd the master's breast ('Twas then, his threshold first receiv'd a guest), Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair. - Thomas Parnell, The Hermit (l. 97) She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. - Edwin Arlington Robinson We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds, My mildness hath allayed their swelling griefs, My mercy dried their water-flowing tears. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at IV, viii) Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, v) But I perceive Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (First Stranger at III, ii) I am an humble suitor to your virtues; For pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (Alcibiades at III, v) My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks. O, if thine eye be not a flatterer, Come thou on my side, and entreat for me As you would beg, were you in my distress. A begging prince what beggar pities not? - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv) Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii) I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no should will pity me. And, wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself? - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii) Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast Where love has been received a welcome guest. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna (act II) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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