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• Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

  Edmund Burke

  Condolences, Passion, Heart

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• The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

  Sophie Swetchine

  Grief, World, Pity

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• A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.

  Kin Hubbard

  Long, Cost, Fellows

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• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Motivational, Family, Success

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• Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

  Criss Jami

  Needs, Helping, Action

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.95, Criss Jami

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• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Kindness, Inspiration, Humble

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• We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

  Madame de Stael

  Condolences, Hands, Condolence Message

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• Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Understanding, Dangerous

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Condolences

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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  The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Compassion

  The Schweitzer Album It is our duty to remember at all times and anew that medicine is not only a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient.

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Depressing, Life Is Good

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Death, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

  Dan Rather

  Courage, Cancer, Grief

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

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• I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Believe, Healing

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken

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• We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Wisdom, Patience

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• There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Pain, Joy

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, First Avenue Editions

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• Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

  Bram Stoker

  Condolences, Facts, Helping

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• If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Kindness, Heart

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

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• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Philosophical, Condolences

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• Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Joy, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.65, Oscar Wilde

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• To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

  Confucius

  Heart, Righteousness, All Things

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• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

  Robert Browning

  Fall, Autumn, Winning

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Relation, Conquest

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics

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• One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

  Richard Steele

  Men, Common, Calamity

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.93

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