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What a pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!
Tragedy isthus a representationof anactionthat isworth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitudeby means of pityand fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
La haine est un tonique, elle fait vivre, elle inspire la vengeance; mais la pitie tue, elle affaiblit encore notre faiblesse. Hatred isa tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it weakens our weaknesses still further.
Up the hill where stucco houses inVirginia creeper drown And my childish wave of pity, seeing children carrying down Sheaves of drooping dandelions to the courts of Kentish Town.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the L; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
For Mercy has a human heart Pity a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
And all must love the human form, In heathen,Turk or Jew; Where mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from yourdoor.
Thy rebukehath brokenmy heart;Iam full of heaviness: I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me. They gave me gall to eat: and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.
Pity is lost in rage and fear.
Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
When I die people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity.
Kind pity chokes my spleen.
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail: And pity never ceases to be shown To him, who makes the people's wrongs his own.
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
Of one so young, so rich in nature's store, Who could not say,'tis pity she's a whore?
And if youare wise you will never pity thepast for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
Julia: how Irishly you sacrifice Love to pity, pity to ill-humour, Yourself to love, still haggling at the price.
Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Loving in truth, and vain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) mighttake some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know; Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain.
What a pity it is we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Well, if the worst comes in the end of all, it'll be great game to see if there's none to pity him but a widow woman, the like of me, has buried her children and destroyed her man.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.
Art should be independent of all clap-trapshould stand alone, and appeal totheartisticsense ofeye orear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements'and 'harmonies'.
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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