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Wisdom about kindness & compassion.
What people have learned about kindness & compassion the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
Let all your things be done with charity.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Let each man direct himself first to what is proper; then let him teach others.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.
Kind hearts are more than coronets.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
(It is the way of the Tao) to act without (thinking of) acting; to conduct affairs without (feeling the) trouble of them; to taste without discerning any flavour; to consider what is small as great, and a few as many; and to recompense injury with kindness.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.