Quotes About Compassion

They mourned for his kind of Christianity, and he frankly scoffed at theirs; but both parties went on loving each other just the same.

Do not bring your dog. (advice for attending a funeral)

The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him let us try to keep this in our minds, to his credit

There are men who cannot hear animals, he said. And then there are men who cannot hear anything at all.

Helen Keller was to have been present last night but she is ill in bed, and has been ill in bed during several weeks, through overwork in the interest of the blind, the deaf, and the dumb. I need not go into any particulars about Helen Keller. She is fellow to Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Homer, Shakspeare, and the rest of the immortals. She will be as famous a thousand years from now as she is to-day.

No brute ever does a cruel thing—that is the monopoly of those with the Moral Sense.

And who has prayed for Satan? In eight hundred years, who has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner who needed it most?

Oprost je miris koji ljubi?ica ostavi na stopalu koje ju je zdrobilo.

La gentillesse est le langage qu'un sourd peut entendre et une aveugle peut voir

Courts musn't interfere and separate families if they could help it. Said he'd druther not take a child away from its father.

What can a person's heart be made of that can pity a Christian's child and yet can't pity a devil's child, that a thousand times more needs it!

What I suffered in contemplating his happiness, pen cannot describe.

El perdón es la fragancia que la violeta suelta cuando se levanta el zapato que la aplastó.

Of all the animals, man is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of it.

I became a new being, and the subject of my own admiration. I was a traveler! A word never had tasted so good in my mouth before. I had an exultant sense of being bound for mysterious lands and distant climes which I never have felt in so uplifting a degree since. I was in such a glorified condition that all ignoble feelings departed out of me, and I was able to look down and pity the untraveled with a compassion that had hardly a trace of contempt in it.

My! we couldn't get him out, Tom. And besides, 'twouldn't do any good; they'd ketch him again. Yes—so they would. But I hate to hear 'em abuse him so like the dickens when he never done—that. I do too, Tom. Lord, I hear 'em say he's the

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

Children have but little charity for each other's defects.

Ain't you my chile? En does you know anything dat a mother won't do for her chile? Day ain't nothin' a white mother won't do for her chile. Who made 'em so? De Lord done it. En who made de niggers? De Lord made 'em. In de inside, mothers is all de same. De good lord he made 'em so.

When I am come to mine own again, I will always honour little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed in me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.

One learns people through the heart, not through the eyes or the intellect.

We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its population of sorrowful exiles who wait there, in slow-consuming misery, for death to come and release them from their troubles;

Åžimdiye kadar hiç kimse, sözün al???ld?k anlam?yla, asla kendisini feda etmiÅŸ deÄŸildir - yani, yaln?zca baÅŸkas? için özveride bulunmuÅŸ deÄŸildir. Ä°nsanlar baÅŸkalar? için gündelik feragatlarda bulunurlar, fakat bu öncelikle kendi iyilikleri içindir. Eylem, öncelikle kendi içlerini ferahlatmak zorundad?r. Bundan yararlanan kiÅŸiler ikinci s?rada gelir.

Talk? Well, it's just Muff Potter, Muff Potter, Muff Potter all the time. It keeps me in a sweat, constant, so's I want to hide som'ers." "That's just the same way they go on round me. I reckon he's a goner. Don't you feel sorry for him, sometimes?" "Most always—most always. He ain't