"One grows out of pity when it's useless."
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"Were't not for laughing, I should pity him."
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"What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us."
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"It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity."
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"Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation."
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"Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go."
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"Self-pity is the simplest luxury."
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"Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major."
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"pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music."
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"What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice."
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"We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!"
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"What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity."
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"The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."
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"Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface."
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"Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more."
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"Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay."
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"What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!"
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"Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil"
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"Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice."
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"Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated."
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