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• With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

  Thomas Moore

  Broken Heart, Pain, Memories

  Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

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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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• We heard the sad news today And had to send this card to say Our thoughts and prayers go out to you There's not lot a lot that we can do But if you need just anything Pick up the phone, give us a ring Even though we're far apart We're with you in spirit and in heart And hope that you will find, at length The love of family will give you strength.

  Margaret Jones

  Prayer, Heart, Family Love

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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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• I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Country, Son, Different

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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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• When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

  Samantha Morton

  Real, Rap, Gun

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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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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• 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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• There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

  Les Aspin

  Hussein, Administration, Problem

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• The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, People, Diversity

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.868, Modern Library

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• Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

  Rudolf Steiner

  God, Soul, Quality

  Rudolf Steiner (2015). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.7, RSP

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• To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

  William Mountford

  Communication, Men, Compassion

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.213

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Morning, Spring, Condolences

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell

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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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• No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.89

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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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• 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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