compassion quotes

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Now when Job's three friends heard of all these troubles that had come upon him, each of them set out from his home--Eliphaz the T ...
They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was v ...
...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me whe ...
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order ...
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as ...
Can I see a falling tear,
And not feel my sorrow's share?
When I from black and he from white cloud free,
And round the tent of Godlike lambs we joy,
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Angels' song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock:
And even as he stabbed me through and through
I pitied him for his small strategy.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
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