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• There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  Compassion, Air, Breathe

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• I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

  Tim Kaine

  Winning, Giving, Courtesy

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• The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sorrow, Stronger, Prosperity

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3952, Delphi Classics

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• even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Hands, Suffering

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

  Emily Dickinson

  Compassion, Console

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.322, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Giving

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• We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Life, Eternity, Creeds

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• And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

  William C. Bryant

  Grief, Should Have, Mourning

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Mad, Helping

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.246, Penguin

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• I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Heart, Doctors, People

  "Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

  Daniel Wallace

  Land, Dying, Ends

  Daniel Wallace (1999). “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions”, Penguin Group USA

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• Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Wedding Anniversary, Essence

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pain, Depth, Bears

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• All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never;
  Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Forever, Sorrow, Forget

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• If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Light, Giving, Atoms

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• in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Expression, Certain, Crisis

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6797, Delphi Classics

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• When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Simple, Men, Wild Roses

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

  Helmut Kohl

  People, Political, United

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• The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

  Goldwin Smith

  Party, Humanity, Novelists

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  W. H. Davies

  Food, Beer, Men

  Shorter Lyrics of the 20th Century, Introduction

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• O, I have suffered
  With those that I saw suffer!

  William Shakespeare

  Suffering, Saws, Pity

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3813, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Sad, Real, Mean

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 8, 1975.

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• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  F. H. Bradley

  Wise, Suffering, Needs

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 22), 1930.

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• It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Diversity, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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