By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas Chapman (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.114
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By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.