Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could... Paulo Coelho
Sire, have pity on the Spanish infantry, which, for lack of pay and out of sheer starvation, is scouring the low country round, plundering the peasantry in mere need of food. These disorders I cannot repress, much less can I punish them, for necessity has no law. William the Silent
Have pity on our foolishness And give us eyes, that we may see Beneath the shopman's clumsy dress The splendor of humanity! Joyce Kilmer