"The strongest have their moments of fatigue."
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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"Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower."
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"He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels."
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"Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?"
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"The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds."
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"It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?"
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"Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths."
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"We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance."
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"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time."
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"I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit that, on your face girl it just don't show."
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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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"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
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"She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not."
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"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same."
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"Compassion is a verb."
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"As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider."
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"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."
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"The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen."
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"A man is not completely born until he is dead."
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