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The Dalai Lama was talking about the importance of compassion for compassion's sake, because it's the right thing to do.

Earnest Harris: Texas Inmates Can Teach Brit Hume About Redemption and Forgiveness 2010

There are a lot of resourceful people in the world, and a lot of resourceful people traffickers willing to smuggle them in, but budgets are limited, taxes are limited - and compassion's limited too.

Christina Patterson: What we can learn from the Sikh in the BNP 2009

My post about using simulated disabilities to increase empathy has, to my considerable surprise, gotten quite a few comments from people saying that these are specious exercises, and that compassion's better than empathy.

Today's Discussion Question Susan Palwick 2007

They're far from home and miss compassion's touch, in deserts of such big diameter 'tis no surprise that men might not have much a yearn for tales in iambic pentameter?

CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2003 2003

For Thy compassion's sake forgive and heal, warm, establish, enlighten, draw me and I will follow.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

'_Speak to me, for Thy compassion's sake, O Lord my God, and tell me what art Thou to me!

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

'_Speak to me, for Thy compassion's sake, O Lord my God, and tell me what art Thou to me!

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

Some the King kept alive, for whom, as being of high nobility and great wealth, he hoped to receive a ransom; others were saved by private persons, a few for compassion's sake; and others in the hope of gain.

Heroes Every Child Should Know Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880

For Thy compassion's sake forgive and heal, warm, establish, enlighten, draw me and I will follow.

Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

Scarce do I behold you than already my calmed fears suffer the image of death to vanish; and I feel I know not what unknown fire flow through my frozen veins: Esteem I have felt, and kindness, friendship, gratitude; compassion's innocent sorrows have made me know its power, but I have not yet felt what I now feel.

Psyche 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647