Edwin Arnold Quotes

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!

I'm not fond of kicking a man when he's down.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.