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“A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.”

Men Humans Humanity Force Human Nature Honor Essentials Dignity Pity Helpless

Book:The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

“Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.”

Ifs Humans Hard Poor Human Nature Pity Contempt Alas Degenerates

Author:John Godfrey Saxe

“But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Loss Human Nature Pity Diets Honey Unthinkable

Book:The Brandons, and others

Source: The Brandons, and others

“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

“Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”

Should Humans Literature Nature Wonder Fire Human Nature Birth Creatures Findings Pity Heroic Electric Heroism Pearls Rubbish

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.”

Men Wells Cases Human Nature Envy Pity

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.”

Humans Seems Psychology Human Nature Pity Destroyed Psychiatrist

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton