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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Compassion

AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

4.5 · 26 votes · 193 reads

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Forget the past.

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PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

3.2 · 25 votes

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He who feels no compassion will become insane.

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4.7 · 20 votes · 141 reads

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In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much

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Alexis de Tocqueville

PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

4.3 · 38 votes

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

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William Butler Yeats

PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

5.0 · 29 votes

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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

3.3 · 52 votes · 110 reads

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

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PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

4.2 · 20 votes · 150 reads

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

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AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.9 · 26 votes

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

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WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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Albert Schweitzer

TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

4.3 · 24 votes · 183 reads

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot
WriterBritish1819 · 19th century
3.6 · 6 votes · 192 reads
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Why does God endow us with compassion?
Franz Schubert
MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century
3.4 · 39 votes · 146 reads
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