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

— Edwin Arnold The Light of Asia (1879)

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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.

Light of Asia (1879)

Making all futures fruits of all the pasts.

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

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A little rain will fill
The lily's cup which hardly moists the field.

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