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“The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.”

World Has Beens Suffering Kindness Pity

Book:The adventures of Philip on his way through the world

Source: The adventures of Philip on his way through the world

“Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.”

Men May Reality Order Kindness Offers Disaster Pity Occasions Misfortunes Unfortunate Another Man Self Pity Foresight

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”

“Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye.”

Mind Soul Sometimes Moments Humanity Kindness Standing Pity Noses Desperation Brilliance Deer Standing There

Author:Frances Hardinge

“The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.”

Humor Kindness Week Love You Humorous Direct Pity Preacher Scorn Pretension Untruth

Author:Mark Twain

“What is pity but the vice of kindness.”

Kindness Vices Pity

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?”

“When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.”

Want Giving Feels Trying Kind Character Stories Seems Grief Kindness Cry Cold Reader Stronger Backgrounds Impression Objectives Pity Crafts Miserable Unfortunate Standing Out Sigh

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life

“Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.”

Ifs Doe Facts Shows Turns Kindness Ready Habit Sorrow Blind Pity Fancy Cherish Hostility Goodwill

Author:Alexander MacLaren