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Walt Whitman on sympathy
Author: Walt Whitman“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.” -Walt Whitman
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P. J. O’Rourke on sympathy
Author: P. J. O’Rourke“Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge on sympathy
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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William James on sympathy
Author: William James“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.” -William James
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Benjamin Disraeli on sympathy
Author: Benjamin Disraeli“Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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Marcus Tullius Cicero on sympathy
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Emma Goldman on sympathy
Author: Emma Goldman“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.” -Emma Goldman
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Henry David Thoreau on sympathy
Author: Henry David Thoreau“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.” -Henry David Thoreau
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Oscar Wilde on sympathy
Author: Oscar Wilde“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.” -Oscar Wilde
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Martin Luther King, Jr. on sympathy
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.“Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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James Martineau on sympathy
Author: James Martineau“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.” -James Martineau
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Charles Henry Parkhurst on sympathy
Author: Charles Henry Parkhurst“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.” -Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Ivan Turgenev on sympathy
Author: Ivan Turgenev“To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.” -Ivan Turgenev
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William R. Alger on sympathy
Author: William R. Alger“A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.” -William R. Alger
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George Henry Lewes on sympathy
Author: George Henry Lewes“The only cure for grief is action.” -George Henry Lewes
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Jean Giraudoux on sympathy
Author: Jean Giraudoux“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.” -Jean Giraudoux
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Dirk Benedict on sympathy
Author: Dirk Benedict“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.” -Dirk Benedict
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Nigella Lawson on sympathy
Author: Nigella Lawson“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” -Nigella Lawson
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Anne Grant on sympathy
Author: Anne Grant“Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.” -Anne Grant
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Harriet Beecher Stowe on sympathy
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Jerome K. Jerome on sympathy
Author: Jerome K. Jerome“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.” -Jerome K. Jerome
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Pierre Corneille on sympathy
Author: Pierre Corneille“One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.” -Pierre Corneille
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Xenophon on sympathy
Author: Xenophon“Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.” -Xenophon
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Joni Mitchell on sympathy
Author: Joni Mitchell“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” -Joni Mitchell