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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Pity |
| Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door. The Rev. Thos. Moss.—Gentleman’s Magazine, LXX. p. 41. (The Beggar’s Petition.) | 1 |
| What comfort can a wretch like me bestow? He best can pity who has felt the woe. Gay.—Dione, Act II. Scene 2. | 2 |
| Pity melts the mind to love. Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast. | 3 |
| 1. I pity you. 2. That’s a degree to love. Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 1. (Viola to Olivia.) | 4 |
| Do pity me; Pity’s akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. Southern.—Oroonoka, Act II. Scene 1. | 5 |
| Pity, some say, is the parent Of future love. Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Spanish Curate, Act V. Scene 1. | 6 |
| And some say pity is the child of love. Cotton.—Love’s Triumph, Verse 5. | 7 |
| Pity swells the tide of love. Dr. Young.—Night III. Line 106. | 8 |
| They would your virgin soul to pity move, And pity may at last be changed to love. Pomfret.—Fortunate Complaint. | 9 |
| If pity move Your generous bosom, pity those who love. Gay.—Dione, Act I. Scene 1. | 10 |
| Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Goldsmith.—The Deserted Village, Line 161. | 11 |
| Those that can pity—may—let fall a tear. Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Prol. Line 5. | 12 |
| He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part II. Act IV. Scene 4. (The King to Clarence, speaking of his son Prince Henry.) | 13 |
| And mourn’d till pity’s self be dead. Collins.—Dirge in Cymbeline, Verse 6. | 14 |
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