Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Compassion
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A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.
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But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
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Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon.
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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.
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