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"Oliver has long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings to those about him, though they do in the feelings of a great many people. He was still the same gentle, attached, affectionate creature that he had been when pain and suffering had wasted his strength; and when he was dependent for every slight attention and comfort on those who tended him."
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"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."

"When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations."

"Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience."

"Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion."

"Approaching others with a loving heart enables you to be more caring, compassionate, and empathetic. What's not to love about that?"

"Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too."

"A word of consolation may sweetly touch the ear.Now and then a quiet songwill clear the mind of fear.A simple act of kindnesscan ease a load of care.Stories told in memorydiminish all despair.A whispered prayer of comfortdraws angel arms around.Counting blessings, great and small,helps gratitude abound.These acts, all sympathetic,will kindly play their part.But seldom do they dry the tearsshed mutely in the heart."

"You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion."

"There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain."

"Every peak and valley of your life has led you to deeper understanding and, ultimately, growing compassion."
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"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

"It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained."

"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"
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