Quotes About Empathy

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Though those who are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe.

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.Close up his eyes, and draw the curtain close;And let us all to meditation.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

Mine enemy's dog,Though he had bit me, should have stood that nightAgainst my fire.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.

Press not a falling man too far.

One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

For we may pity, though not pardon thee.

What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I am a manMore sinn'd against than sinning.

To see sad sights moves more than hear them told.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,That sees into the bottom of my grief?

You tread upon my patience.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,But to support him after.

Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?

But yet the pity of it, Iago! O! Iago, the pity of it, Iago!

O! you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.

Our new heraldry is hands not hearts.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.