If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by hersel...f, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful... To flies even. "Sing," says he, "and tease me still, If that's your way, poor insect."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning,... In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night's arms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a strange, strange fate, and now, as I stand face to face with death I feel just as if they were going to kill a boy. For I ...feel like a boy--and my hands so free from blood and my heart always so compassionate and pitiful that I cannot comprehend how anyone wants to hang me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter the... union, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend to... what addresses the senses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience, that here, here in America, is the home of man. After all th...e deductions which are to be made of for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die, whether James or whether Jonathan shall sit in the chair and hold the purse; after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself presently, which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so,... Then were my hopes greater than my despair, Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »