#sympathy

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ↗

— Confucius

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If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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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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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. ↗

— Xenophon

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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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