#sympathy

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. ↗

— John Burns

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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away. ↗

— Jared Leto

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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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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ↗

— Moliere

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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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Tears are the silent language of grief. ↗

— Voltaire

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