Quotes about Compassion
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
— Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
— Charles Dickens
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
— Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
— Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
— Charles Dickens
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
— Charles Dickens
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces — and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper — love her, love her, love her!
— Charles Dickens
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
— Charles Dickens
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
— Charles Dickens
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
— Charles Dickens
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
— Charles Dickens
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
— Charles Dickens