Compassion Quote by Abraham Lincoln

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh…

— Joseph de Maistre

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our hopes and…

— Robert Harris

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

— Charles Spurgeon

The wisest fool in Christendom.

— King James I

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

— Horace

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

— Alexander Pope

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in…

— Joseph Haydn

What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery:…

— Graham Greene

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

— Baltasar Gracian

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that…

— Mark Twain

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more…

— George Washington