"A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything."
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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
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"A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow."
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"To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness"
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"Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive."
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"I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious."
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"I'm not looking for sympathy at all."
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"That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less."
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"A sympathy in choice."
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". . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle."
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"O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!"
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"One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars"
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"The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness."
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"We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man."
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"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population."
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"The light has gone out of my life."
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"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
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"Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them."
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"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself."
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"Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?"
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