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Pity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold…
- If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind;…
- To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,…
- Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
- People in distress never think that you feel enough.
- We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
- The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
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