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“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
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“Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.”
Paul Eipper Quotes |
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“Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart”
Edmund Burke Quotes |
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“His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes Source: Table-Talk--Sympathy
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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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“There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 1)
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“Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.”
Charles Dickens Quotes 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.”
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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“He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 166)
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“The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy
and sorrow.”
A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare Quotes Source: Guesses at Truth
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“We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.”
Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans Quotes 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.”
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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