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“Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.”

Mind Kind Reason Hands Winning Youth Gains Pity Fancy Woe Reins Contemplative

Book:The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

“Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.”

Men Mind Limits Gains Trade Deeds Pity Streams Heroic Fountain Confined Heroic Deeds

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper

“Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.”

Knows Way Prayer Gains Hatred Pity Temptation Shock Deliverance

Author:John Owen

“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.”

People Ifs Way Looks Persons Moments Feelings Views Perspective Wall Horror Gains Pity Sane Asylums Hoarding

Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

“It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.”

Loses Youth Gains Pity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)