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LitQuotes Found 7 Compassion Quotes(Click on items in Author or Source column to see more items from that author or title.)
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| And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world? | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |  | | Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Valley of Fear | | | He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Valley of Fear | | | More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | | | These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people--amongst whom your life is passed--that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire--for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | | | Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | | | As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | |
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