It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future!
But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.
History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.
He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
The coward is an object to be pitied.
Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated
Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.