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Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

— Edwin Arnold

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Birthless and deathless and changeless remainaineth the spirit forever;
Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

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Making all futures fruits of all the pasts.

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Pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

The Light of Asia (1879)

Pity and need
Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood.

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