Compassion

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  1. consideration
    the process of giving careful thought to something
    A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
    Olin Miller

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  2. humanity
    all of the living inhabitants of the earth
    A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
    Georg Brandes

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  3. grace
    elegance and beauty of movement or expression
  4. clemency
    leniency and compassion shown toward offenders
  5. sorrow
    an emotion of great sadness associated with loss
  6. sympathy
    sharing the feelings of others, especially sorrow or anguish
    A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
    William R. Alger


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  7. kindness
    the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane
    And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
    Martin Scorsese


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  8. condolence
    an expression of sympathy with another's grief
  9. fellow feeling
    sharing the feelings of others
  10. mercy
    a disposition to be kind and forgiving
    A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
    Ann Plato


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Created on Thu Mar 24 06:54:16 EDT 2011 (updated Thu Mar 31 08:17:04 EDT 2011)

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