"in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy."
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"Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion."
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"The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind."
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"even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises."
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"The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion."
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"Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction."
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"But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men."
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"Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe."
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"True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
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"I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it."
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"Sympathy is a sweet thing."
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