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"Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves."
"I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears."
"Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute."
"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
"The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience."
"In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect."
"Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy."
"When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother."
"If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate."
"To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits."
"No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy."
"I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life."
"For the dead there are no more toils."
"Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world."
"It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought."
"There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain."
"There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy."
"You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you."
"It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries."
"There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy."
