"And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief."
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"I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul."
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"Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn."
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"Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure."
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"If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."
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"Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy."
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"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly."
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"Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate."
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"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
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"It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man."
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"It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty."
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"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
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"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."
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"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."
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"Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart."
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"As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors."
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"We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
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"There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate."
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"We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being."
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"What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say"
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