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• My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

  Agnes Smedley

  Mother, Father, Men

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• None of us can choose where we shall love.

  Susan Kay

  Empathy

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• No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Men, Given

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Popular Lectures on Preaching”, p.188

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• I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

  Tom Perrotta

  Honesty, Eye, Writing

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• To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Past, History, Historical

  "Gerry Adams: Queen's Ireland regret not enough", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.

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• I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

  Anson Mount

  Character, Care, Clear

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

  William Hull

  Bible, Support, Captains

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• When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

  Toni Morrison

  Pain, Suffering, Comfort

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• I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

  Terry Pratchett

  Levels, University

  "Terry Pratchett". www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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• I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

  Richard Russo

  Book, Writing, Character

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• The dew of compassion is a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Death, Condolences

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

  Marlo Thomas

  Loss, Blow, Thinking

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• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

  William Blake

  Artist, Laughing, Joy

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.202, Delphi Classics

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• There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

  Michael Ealy

  Beautiful, Ambition, Want

  "Michael Ealy Breaks Down ‘Think Like A Man,’ Relationships And His Return To Broadway". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Love, Relationship, Broken Heart

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.60, 谷月社

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• Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

  Andre Gide

  Real, Great Men, Ill

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• . . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Leaving, Comfort

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

  Vipin Sharma

  Love, Hurt, Heart

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• Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Inspirational, Children, Teenage

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

  John Lydon

  Nice, Looks, Young

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• To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

  Maureen Connolly

  Impossible, Remember, Forget

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• The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

  Gerald Brenan

  Sorry, People, Waste

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• A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Thinking, Crowds, Reason

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