There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
<Pity, sympathy, compassion, commiseration, condolence>.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
For pity melts the mind to love.
For pitee renneth [runneth] soon in gentle herte [heart].
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never.
It is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly commiseration.
Their congratulations and their condolences are equally words of course.
<Poverty, want, need, destitution, indigence, penury>.