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"Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood."
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"I find a pity hangs upon his heart Like gentle dew, that cools all cruel passions."
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Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others. The word is comparable to compassion, condolence, or empathy. It derives from the Latin pietas. Self-pity is pity directed towards oneself.
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"Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody Poor. And Mercy no more could be, If all were as happy as we."
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"Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison."
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"Pity in woman is a great beautifier."
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"To share the suffering of them we pity ranks above redress."
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"Pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong."
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