I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion read more

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how
dwelleth the love of God in him?

Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.

Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Somewhere or other there must surely be
The face not seen, the voice not heard,
The heart read more

Somewhere or other there must surely be
The face not seen, the voice not heard,
The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me!
Made answer to my word.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the read more

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.