William Shakespeare on Sympathy
1564–1616 England
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Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
Richard III (1591)
Tear-falling pity dwells not in his eye.
Richard III (1591)
Pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
But, I perceive,
Men must learn now with pity to dispense;
For policy sits above conscience.
My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,
My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs.
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face,
A world of earthly blessings to my soul,
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks;
O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,
As you would beg, were you in my distress:
A begging prince what beggar pities not?
Richard III (1591)