#sympathy

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. ↗

— Tom Ford

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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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. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. ↗

— John Hall

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Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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