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Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by.
John Lubbock
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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Pity and need
Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
Edwin Arnold
Quotes , Source: Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 73)
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But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how
dwelleth the love of God in him?
Bible
Quotes , Source: I John (ch. III, v. 17)
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But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is
for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for
the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with
regard to it? On which side shall we stand?
John Bright
Quotes , Source: Speech on Slavery and Secession
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In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Stanzas to Augusta
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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Our souls sit close and silently within,
And their own web from their own entrails spin;
And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,
That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Mariage a la Mode (act II, sc. 1)
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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and
likeness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Representative Men--Montaigne
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The man who melts
With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
Euripides
Quotes , Source: Orestes (l. 846)
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
For other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Odyssey (bk. XVIII, l. 269), (Pope's translation)
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World-wide apart, and yet akin,
As showing that the human heart
Beats on forever as of old.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, The Theologian's Tale, Interlude)
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For I no sooner in my heart divin'd
My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 357)
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