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“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?”

Humans Ends Facts Christian Virtue Sea Fit Sorrow Moved Pity Sickness Sensibility Sincerely Fear Of Death Melting Liver Brethren Toothache Gout

Book:Collected Letters: 1820-1825

Source: Collected Letters: 1820-1825

“These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.”

Men Poor Rich Sea Rivers Fishes Pity Boat Lakes Fishing Rich Man Anglers

Book:The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...

Source: The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...

“These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert.”

Men Should May Lord Cutting Sea Honor All Things Gold Pity Desert Titles Shore Traffic Commodity My Thoughts Merchandise

Author:Eliza Haywood

“Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.”

Humans Eye Faces Lying Loss Sea Sadness Intellectual Pity Staring Locked Frozen Disgrace Human Faces

Author:W. H. Auden

“Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.”

Heart May Past Moving Joy Speak Memories Forget Grief Tree Sea Sky Fields Flower Broken Rivers Gold Green Pity Unseen Folds Ripple Gleam Heart Broke Mead Glisten

Author:William Morris

“I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.”

Sea Sadness Lovers Sad Pity Stormy Seamen Stormy Seas

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.”

Giving Looks Helping Earth Night Sun Meditation Sea Rivers Angry Faults Tolerance Pity Generosity Modesty Tenderness Covering Furious Humbleness Generosity And Giving Giving Help

Author:Rumi

“One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.”

Men May Stills Body Behinds Existence Attention Consciousness Imagine Sea Sky Land Childhood One Day Capable Flesh Pity Throwing Spheres Organs Adolescence Farewell Suitable Sensing

Book:Profiles Of The Future

Source: Profiles Of The Future