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These famous kindness quotes and sayings will restore your faith in humanity and inspire you to bring more patience and grace to your day. 52 kindness quotes that will bring you peace Skip to main ...
Ren (Chinese: 仁, meaning "co-humanity" or "humaneness") is a Confucian virtue meaning the good quality of a virtuous human when reaching for higher ideals or when being altruistic. Ren is exemplified by functional, instinctual, parental feelings and intentions of encouragement and protection for their children. It is considered the outward ...
Kindness, altruism, and love are all mentioned in the Bible. Proverbs 19:22 states "the desire of a man is his kindness." On the topic of altruism, emphasis is placed on helping strangers (Hebrews 13:1) and the biblical adage "it is better to give than to receive" . Humanity is one of Thomas Aquinas' "Seven Heavenly Virtues".
The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (1764) is a philosophical poem by novelist Oliver Goldsmith. In heroic verse of an Augustan style it discusses the causes of happiness and unhappiness in nations. It was the work which first made Goldsmith's name, and is still considered a classic of mid-18th-century poetry.
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"It seems a day" Poems of the Imagination: 1800 A Poet's Epitaph 1799 "Art thou a Statist in the van" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. 1800 Address to the Scholars of the Village School of -----1798 or 1799 "I come, ye little noisy Crew," Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years,; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. (1845-) 1841 Matthew: 1799
"Man Was Made to Mourn" is one of Burns's many early poems that protest class inequalities. [6] The scholar Nigel Leask writes that the poem includes "surprisingly contemporary themes", noting its "lament for the harshness and brevity of human life" and direct criticism of "hundreds labour[ing] to support / a haughty lordling's pride". It does ...
A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...