- Pity is sworn servant unto love:
- And this be sure, wherever it begin
- To make the way, it lets your master in.
SAMUEL DANIEL, The Queen's Arcadia
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
WILLA CATHER, "On the Divide," The Troll Garden
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.
CHARLES DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
He best can pity who has felt the woe.
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