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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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• I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

  Aneurin Bevan

  War, Alive, Hospitality

  Speech in the House of Commons, 30 April (1946)

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• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

  Victor Hugo

  Sorrow, Doe, Fruit

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• I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

  Hugh Jackman

  Devil, Rolling, Stones

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• It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

  Terry Eagleton

  Lying, Writing, Compassion

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Patience, Kindness, Opportunity

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Army, Past, Silence

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• I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  A. N. Wilson

  Christian, Doubters, Honest

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• Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Ties, Understanding, Together

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.58, tredition

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• That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Strength, Time, Grief

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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• Each person's grief journey is unique as a fingerprint or a snowflake.

  Earl A Grollman

  Grief, Unique, Journey

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• Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Children, Soul, Poodles

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.

  Gerard Majella

  Divine Will, Bears, Helping

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• Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

  Gary Ackerman

  People, Making Money, Rich

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• By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heart, Law, Suffering

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The Way of Salvation and of Perfection”, p.138, Aeterna Press

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• Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance for the next. The more we sorrow in the present, ..the greater will be our joy in the future.

  Isidore of Seville

  Adversity, Joy, Suffering

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• Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Father, Home

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• Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Men, Clothes

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.250

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• I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

  Daniel Johns

  School, People, Sick

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

  Alton Brown

  Games, Play, People

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• It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

  Nellie Bly

  Kindness, World, Littles

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.18, Golgotha Press

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• If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Revenge, Hate, Yield

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• Where pity is, for pity makes the world
  Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

  Edwin Arnold

  Strong, Noble, World

  "The Light of Asia: The Great Renunciation".

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• Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

  John Fowles

  Reality, Historical, Degrees

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Silence, Political

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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