Distress Quote by Horace Mann Download Open image “To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.” — Horace Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distress Godlike Pity
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you. — CJ Roberts Copy Share Image
“Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be.… — Abd al-Karim Qasim Copy Share Image
