“The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.
You wept over great distances.
My ache was a clutch of agonies
over your sickly heart of sand.”
― Selected Poems
You wept over great distances.
My ache was a clutch of agonies
over your sickly heart of sand.”
― Selected Poems
“I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.”
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“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.”
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
― The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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