Quotes with pities

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• He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

  Thomas Paine
  English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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• To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

  Miguel de Unamuno
  Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• resemblance
• imagination
• touching
• striking
• plumage
• forgets

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