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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.