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en-wikipedia-org-7061		Pity - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1981	334	66	Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others, and is used in a comparable sense to compassion, condolence or empathy the word deriving from the Latin pietās (etymon also of piety). The Human Abstract, a poem in William Blake's collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience, in which he proclaims "Pity would be no more, / If we did not make somebody Poor" (1-2). Jean-Jacques Rousseau had the following opinion of pity as opposed to love for others: "It is therefore certain that pity is a natural sentiment, which, by moderating in every individual the activity of self-love, contributes to the mutual preservation of the whole species. Juvenal considered pity the noblest aspect of human nature.[13] Mystic poet William Blake was ambivalent about Pity, initially casting it in a negative role, before viewing Pity as an emotion that can draw beings together. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Pity	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7061.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7061.txt