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«None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware»
Author: Robert Herrick | About: Pity, Relationships | Keywords: pities, snare, warned
«The public has invested in this story. It participates, it judges, it condemns, it pities. It's a second life for a lot of people.»
«Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.»
«Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.»
«Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.»
«In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and no-body pities their Case.»
«Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.»
«Friends help; others pity.»
Author: Proverb | About: Friends | Keywords: pities, pity, pitying, Pity Me, with pity
«It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself ''superior.''»
«He who would have others pity him must pity others»

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