"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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"Death is only a larger kind of going abroad."
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"Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well."
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"Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole."
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"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did."
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"Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
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"The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it."
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"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
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"Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature."
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"Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess."
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"It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected."
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"The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity."
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"For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts."
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"For grief is crowned with consolation."
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"Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction"
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"Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world"
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"His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be"
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"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."
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"There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore."
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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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