“Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.”

— Alice Meynell

"Introductory Note" to The Poetry of Pathos & Delight: From the Works of Coventry Patmore; Passages Selected by Alice Meynell (London: William Heinemann, 1906), p. xi.

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English publisher, editor, writer, poet, activist 1847–1922

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