tender conscience
Soft heart and weak bones is a Chinese idiom.
Explanation: soft heart: soft state of mind; weak bone: delicate bone;
Source: Liezi · Tangwen: "human nature is gentle and follows things, not competing, not fighting, soft heart and weak bone, not arrogant and not jealous."
tender conscience
hovering between life and death - yī fó chū shì,èr fó shēng tiān
be six of one and half a dozen of the other - bàn jīn bā liǎng
lament at the death of a famous man - shēng róng sǐ āi