#sympathy

Tears are the silent language of grief. ↗

— Voltaire

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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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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

— Edward Gibbon

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I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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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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