"Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy."
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"Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness ."
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"Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain."
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"The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others."
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"Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love."
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"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
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"The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true."
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"There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with."
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"I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology."
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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
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"How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand."
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"If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller."
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"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."
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"Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want."
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"In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee"
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"Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul."
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"A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him."
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"The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence."
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"I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being."
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"The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious."
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