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• Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Blessing

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.105, UPNE

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• For the dead there are no more toils.

  Sophocles

  Death, Dying, Toil

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Names, Profound

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• Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

  David Chalmers

  Australian, Versions

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• I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Wisdom, Pain, People

  Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.205, Princeton University Press

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• Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm, big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Appreciation, Heart, Artist

  Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.115, Univ of California Press

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• We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden--that is human sympathy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Men, Comfort, May

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• I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

  A. C. Benson

  Thinking, Views, Normal

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• A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Legs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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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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• 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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• I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

  Dorothy Day

  Brother, Believe, Fundamentals

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• Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

  Laurence Sterne

  Too Late, Affliction, Consolation

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.98

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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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• 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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• When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Brother, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.459

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• Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

  Lew Wallace

  Taken, Self, Hands

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.230, Bible Study Steps

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• Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Courage, Men, Tenderness

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• In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friends, Country, Expression

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lying, Ebb And Flow, Secret Places

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

  Rose of Lima

  Struggle, Catholic, Grace

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• According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Happiness, People, Pleasure

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• A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Attitude, Philosophy, Creative

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• Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Heart, Men, Firsts

  Thomas Noon Talfourd (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Writings”, p.5

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• Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

  Richard Asher

  Expression, Smooth, Symptoms

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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