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This time, however, I had an alternative system of healing that I believed in. So I went home, continued to care for my very sick residents, and began to work on myself. The first thing I had to confront about myself was that I was being a compassionate fool.
"When equity may and should be brought into play, press not the utmost rigour of the law against the guilty; for the reputation of the stern judge stands not higher than that of the compassionate. "If perchance thou permittest the staff of justice to swerve, let it be not by the weight of a gift, but by that of mercy.
Are you not willing to run the chance of a better, cleaner life?" Marcia Lowe was bending forward now, her face radiant and inspired she looked young, lovely and compassionate. "I I don't follow you, ma'am." Poor Martin was caught in the toils of the enthusiast. "Then listen.
She ran to the window, and not daring to look in lest they should be very close together, she called, "Richard, Roger is coming." There was a noise of a chair being pushed back, and Richard stood over her, asking: "When? Has he written?" She held out the letter. There was the rustling of paper crushed in the hand, and she looked up into his burning and compassionate eyes.
She made her choice, and the storekeeper brought a great book, and entered against the head of the house of Taberer so many pounds of tobacco; then, as the maiden turned to depart, heaved a sigh so piteous and profound that no tender saint in gray could do less than pause, half turn her head, and lift two compassionate eyes.
Although he blamed the superstition of the Turks, who think that they acquire merit in the sight of God by lavishing kindness on senseless brutes, even the most savage and cruel, such as wolves and lions, still he used to say that this pity had a good natural source, and that those who were so compassionate to animals were likely to be no otherwise to men, nature teaching us not to despise our own flesh.
But as the end crowns the work, it also forms the rule by which it must be ultimately judged; and those who, with sincerity and generosity, fight and fall in an evil cause, posterity can only compassionate as victims of a generous but fatal error.
Let your Highness pronounce the Decree of his Destiny, mine is inseperably annexed to it whatever it be. Zeokinizul was moved with such exalted Virtue, and being naturally tender and compassionate, he was grieved at seeing the Afflictions of two Lovers whom he himself had render'd unhappy. A Ray of Wisdom opened his Eyes, and restored him to himself.
The compassionate sympathy and tenderness of a young girl possess a power that is actually magnetic; so that Charles, finding himself the object of the attentions of his aunt and cousin, could not escape the influence of feelings which flowed towards him, as it were, and inundated him. He gave Eugenie a bright, caressing look full of kindness, a look which seemed itself a smile.
A cleansed eye will see the brother's mote clearly, but only in order to help its extraction. It is a delicate bit of work to get it out, and needs a gentle hand. Our discernment of others' faults must be compassionate, not to be followed by condemnation nor self-complacency but by loving efforts to help to a cure.
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