What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.
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Related What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’ ‘Pity? It was Pit... J.R.R. TOLKIEN His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action. SHūSAKU ENDō Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by ... SAMUEL JOHNSON And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean t... DENIS JOHNSON Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like ever... GASTON LEROUX What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. MARGOT ASQUITH What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. MARGOT ASQUITH He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. BIBLE Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like every... GASTON LEROUX Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. MARK TWAIN That he is mad, 't is true: 't is true 't is pity;And pity 't is 't is true. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cl... KAHLIL GIBRAN Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly lit... JONATHAN FRANZEN Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother... ORIANA FALLACI That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quit... ROBIN HOBB Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. MARK TWAIN I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He showed no pity. He showed no compassion. He showed no mercy. He deserves none for what he chose t... KATHRYN FLICKER Not once, during this whole thing, did he ever seek pity. That just isn't who Bailey is. SHANNON BAILEY It's a pity because it really looked like he was going to deliver. HISHAM KASSEM Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 A really patient man neither ... FRANÇOIS DE SALES Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation ... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. J.K. ROWLING Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity '... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In his usual perverse way, because he is so good at it, he thinks little of acting. Because he has a... BOB ELLIS Of course you feel extra pity for Tommy ending with losing on penalties. In a way it's always easier... LARS LAGERBACK He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that
which he hath given will he pay him... BIBLE Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in ... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness. WILLIAM FORREST WINTER Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat... MARK TWAIN Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictio... JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a h... WILLIAM BLAKE He said ..." A pause. He cleared his throat. "He said that pity was the only love I could hope for."... R. SCOTT BAKKER Innocent? Tell me human, who among you is innocent? Who among you has not destroyed without need or ... JESSICA MAJZNER When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. BUDDHA It was a good chance to play with Serena but what is a pity that I cannot get the chance today. ZHENG JIE We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas... JEAN-LUC GODARD With Thee, 'tis one to behold and to pity. Accordingly, Thy mercy followeth every man so long as he ... NICOLAS OF CUSA Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can yo... J.R.R. TOLKIEN To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Nobody is going to give us any pity and we're not going to pity ourselves. We just need to play bett... BUDDY BELL Then every man of every clime,That prays in his distress,Prays to the human form divine,Love, Mercy,... WILLIAM BLAKE His injury the gaoler to his pity. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew... JAMES C. DOBSON My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. WILFRED OWEN Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, with... J.R.R. TOLKIEN When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is... JOHN GALSWORTHY When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is ... JOHN GALSWORTHY It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'... UNKNOWN A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H... ITALO CALVINO Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It is not love that transforms the world, but pity. CLARA WINTER If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state ... SAMUEL JOHNSON Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mocker... ERICA O'ROURKE Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. GRAHAM GREENE Ben is twenty-six, and this is his first job. He is small, weedy, and terribly, terribly serious abo... JUDITH FLANDERS If you pity his loneliness, be his company... PHILIP T. M. She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I must say it really was a pity. When I spun I was very close to Alonso. During the pit spot I lost ... FELIPE MASSA The concern is that the images to be devised won't be sufficiently upsetting: not concrete, not deta... SUSAN SONTAG I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand ... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hi... H.P. LOVECRAFT George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and ... METTE IVIE HARRISON For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pit... RACHEL CARSON The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. SIR RICHARD STEELE To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love / All pray in their distress. WILLIAM BLAKE A true friend will never console you in times of failure because consolation brings about self pity ... STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it… LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a ... DIET EMAN Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. BIBLE Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn! J.R.R. TOLKIEN I think he had quite bad losses, for example, in the Davis Cup against us...He was supposed to be in... MARAT SAFIN Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. ANNE CARSON It's not him asking for pity, which some people would do. Jay chose to focus on the positive. He cho... EDDIE BEZALEL Still, given time I think he'd have turned things around here. It's just a pity he never stayed a bi... EDDIE GRAY It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Self-pity is an emotion that is reserved for quitters. RANDY PROFETA I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. RANDY PAUSCH We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and r... STELLA YOUNG He is a monster, I said. Maybe I m a monster to pity him ROSAMUND HODGE Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwellThere God is dwelling too. WILLIAM BLAKE It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young. MARK TWAIN Avoid self-pity, or the pity and sympathy of others. Never allow others to make you feel inferior. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by namin... WILLIAM JAY SMITH Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor i... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poo... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee al... BIBLE For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human d... WILLIAM BLAKE Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed ... PAULO COELHO Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. HELEN KELLER More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us GEORGE ELIOT And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. JOSH BILLINGS We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
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TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your home... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark. J.R.R. TOLKIEN All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady. J.R.R. TOLKIEN In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises! J.R.R. TOLKIEN Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending! J.R.R. TOLKIEN his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already writ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Of wind I sang, a wind ther... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte... J.R.R. TOLKIEN There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr... J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal... J.R.R. TOLKIEN And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b... J.R.R. TOLKIEN No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. J.R.R. TOLKIEN evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. J.R.R. TOLKIEN For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta! J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away e... J.R.R. TOLKIEN till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder... J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no. J.R.R. TOLKIEN For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor... J.R.R. TOLKIEN ...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom. J.R.R. TOLKIEN But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN