#pity

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity. ↗

— Sallust

#consult #doubtful #friendship #hatred #matters

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#cannot #course #end #far #getting

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#nature #never #pity #those #who

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. ↗

— Stendhal

#first #his #loved #man #pity

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#certain #day #either #end #every

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. ↗

— John Templeton

#back #centuries #century #convinced #descendants

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#conventional #go #go home #home #more

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#before #i #i am #loneliness #me

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#chance #contact #elected #fair #fair chance

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#egoism #feelings #good #oppose #petty