5 Metaphors for compassions

I tell thee true, compassion is my foe; Yet have I had of thee compassion.

In the confusion of that dreadful night, compassion for her father was the first distinct emotion that overwhelmed Florence.

Compassion is by some reasoners, on whom the name of philosophers has been too easily conferred, resolved into an affection merely selfish, an involuntary perception of pain at the involuntary sight of a being like ourselves languishing in misery.

It was but too happy to grant all the conditions instantly, and, in the fulsome language of its historians, "feeling that compassion is the way of heaventhat it is the right way to govern by righteousnessit therefore redeemed these pirates from destruction, and pardoned their former crimes.

It is to be regretted, that an habitual and unconquerable deference for the law which excludes females from the Crown of France, should have survived monarchy itself; otherwise the tender compassion excited by the youth, beauty and sufferings of the Princess, might yet have been the means of procuring peace to this distracted country.

5 Metaphors for  compassions