#sympathy

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. ↗

— Laura Carmichael

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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ↗

— Robert Browning

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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. ↗

— James Martineau

#affections #grief #memory #only #widowed

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ↗

— Aeschylus

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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. ↗

— Dorothy Day

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. ↗

— William Blake

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. ↗

— George Eliot

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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. ↗

— George MacDonald

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