“Teach me to feel another's woe,
To right the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.”

— Alexander Pope

Stanza 10; this extends upon the theme evident in the lines of Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene (1596), Book V, Canto ii, Stanza 42: "Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?"
The Universal Prayer (1738)

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