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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Source: Table-Talk--Sympathy
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Pity and need
Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
Author: Edwin Arnold
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?
Author: Bible
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?
Author: John Bright
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Stanzas to Augusta
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Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 1)
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Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Bleak House (ch. XX)
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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.
Author: John Dryden
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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Author: Euripides
Source: Orestes (l. 846)
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He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 166)
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The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy
and sorrow.
Author: A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Source: Guesses at Truth
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We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: Psyche Borne by Zephyrs to the Island of Pleasure
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
For other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 357)
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 323)
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Somewhere or other there must surely be
The face not seen, the voice not heard,
The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me!
Made answer to my word.
Author: Christina G. Rossetti
Source: Somewhere or Other
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If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Votive Tablets--Value and World
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It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto V, st. 13)
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For thou hast given me in this beauteous face
A world of earthly blessings to my soul,
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at I, i)
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Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander at I, i)
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A heart at leisure from itself,
To soothe and sympathise.
Author: Anna Letitia Waring
Source: Father I know that all my Life
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A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.
Author: Paul Eipper
Source: None
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Author: Ed Howe
Source: None
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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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