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• Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Mean Girls, Achievement, Links

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• Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

  Gary Ackerman

  People, Making Money, Rich

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• The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

  Novalis

  Soul, Unions, Individual

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• Sympathy is a sweet thing.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sweet, Sweet Things

  Louisa May Alcott (1872). “Little Men: Fife at Plumfield with Jo's Boys”, p.36

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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

  Men, Foundation, Youth

  "The Task of Social Hygiene". Book by Havelock Ellis, ch. 1, 1912.

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• While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sadness, Men, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

  Laurence Sterne

  Too Late, Affliction, Consolation

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.98

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• Each person's grief journey is unique as a fingerprint or a snowflake.

  Earl A Grollman

  Grief, Unique, Journey

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• The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Shelter, Kind

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.235

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• I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

  A. C. Benson

  Thinking, Views, Normal

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• A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Legs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Men, Clothes

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.250

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• Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Flower, Roots, Truth Is

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• Where pity is, for pity makes the world
  Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

  Edwin Arnold

  Strong, Noble, World

  "The Light of Asia: The Great Renunciation".

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• Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Children, Soul, Poodles

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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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

  Brother, Believe, Fundamentals

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• When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Brother, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.459

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• I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

  Alton Brown

  Games, Play, People

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• The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

  Princess Diana

  People, Care, Streets

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• Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Healing, Heart

  Thomas Moore (1840). “The Works: Accurately Printed from the Last Original Editions with Critical Notes and a Sketch of His Life”, p.194

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• It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

  Nellie Bly

  Kindness, World, Littles

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.18, Golgotha Press

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• He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Wise, Men

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• Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Father, Home

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• Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sympathetic, Dread, Antipathy

  Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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