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• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Condolences, Would Be, World

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Soccer, Condolences

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• Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Relationship, Money, Couple

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.54, Publishdrive

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• Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

  Liane Moriarty

  Condolences, Losing A Loved One, Lost Ones

  Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.385, Penguin UK

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• His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

  Oscar Wilde

  Morality, Should

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.120, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

  William Cowper

  Music, Soul, Sound

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

  Philip Sidney

  Affliction, Sparks, Favour

  Sir Philip Sidney (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.774

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• Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ordinary, Want, Transactions

  Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1877). “Correspondence Between Schiller and Goethe, from 1794 to 1805”

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• No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

  Franz Schubert

  Grief, Joy

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• Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

  Lillie Langtry

  Pain, Doe, Charming

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• Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

  Karen Armstrong

  Unique, Compassion, World Religions

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life”, p.56, Random House

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• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Condolences, Wine, Sleep

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• To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Profound, Desire, Holiness

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Grief, Condolences

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• September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

  Tom Ford

  America, History, September 11

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• I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Party, Pumpkin

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• Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

  Eamon de Valera

  War, People, Suffering

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• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Thinking, Compassion

  Speech by the President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Mother Teresa, pib.nic.in. August 30, 2010.

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• Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye, Grief

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• When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Death, Stars

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

  Homer

  Friendship, Family, Brother

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Compassion, Giving

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

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• I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Condolences, Bereavement

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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