658 Quotes About Sympathy


  • Author George William Russell
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    Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

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  • Author John Buchanan Robinson
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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.

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  • Author John Ruskin
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    The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

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  • Author John Ruskin
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    Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

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  • Author Richard Russo
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    I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

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  • Author Agnes Smedley
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    My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

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  • Author Al Smith
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    It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

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