All 4 Uses
compassion
in
Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech
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- He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid: and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.†
compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, and victories without hope and worst of all, without pity or compassion.†
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- He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.†
- It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)