Compassion

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Teach me to feel another's wo,
To hide the fault I see:
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Empathy Mercy Compassion

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

The Universal Prayer

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1738 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Pope, Alexander. "The Universal Prayer." London: R. Dodsley, 1738, I. 37-40.

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Topic

Empathy Compassion

Author

Milan Kundera

Source

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Medium

Novel

Language

Czech

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

Current Citation

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

William Shakespeare

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Topic

Nature of animals Yin and yang Compassion

Speaker

Lady Anne

Author

William Shakespeare

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1597 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Richard III. London: Andrew Wise, 1597, act 1, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Richard the Third." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.