Pitiful quotes

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If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by hersel ...
Hurt a fly!
He would not for the world: he's pitiful
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And lips say "God be pitiful,"
Who ne'er said, "God be praised."
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly,
Waking in the dawn of the morning,
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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 ...
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ah were she pitiful as she is fair,
Or but as mild as she is seeming so,
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