"There one can see," said Catherine, "how they have torn and skinned and galled the poor earth, it will never be whole again as long as it lives," and in her heart's compassion she took her butter and smeared the ruts right and left, that they might not be so hurt by the wheels, and as she was thus bending down in her charity, one of the cheeses rolled out of her pocket down the hill.
The young man took compassion on the old woman.
Peter had compassion on him and said, Lord and master, if it please you, cure his torments that he may be able to win his own bread.
"Then the King felt compassion for him, and said, "Thou shalt beraised from thy poverty, and shalt have such gifts from me that thoushalt be equal to thy rich brother.
When the wild man had once more reached the dark forest, he took the boy down from his shoulder, and said to him, "Thou wilt never see thy father and mother again, but I will keep thee with me, for thou hast set me free, and I have compassion on thee.
If I do not have compassion on you, and save you, you are lost.
" Then the king began to weep for his poor wife and his little son so much more bitterly than she was doing, that the aged mother had compassion on him and said, "be at peace, she still lives, I secretly caused a hind to be killed, and took these tokens from it, but I bound the child to your wife's back and bade her go forth into the wide world, and made her promise never to come back here again, because you were so angry with her.
Then the king felt compassion, and when he saw that she was so very beautiful, he said to her, will you go away with me.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.
The reporter seemed to have no compassion for this man whose wife's plane had been flown into the World Trade Center.
I feel compassion for him, knowing both of us have lost control of our destiny.
The nurses, grumbling about working Christmas, turned to compassion for a family just trying to get warm on Christmas.
