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• I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Class, People

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• Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

  John Milton

  Condolences, Power, Mind

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems”, p.335, Modern Library

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• It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Soul, Mind

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• Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Believe, Animal, Charitable Work

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• The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Gossip, Grace, Inspire

  Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”

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• Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Patriotic, Sacrifice

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.228, Xist Publishing

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• Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

  William Shakespeare

  Thank You, Teacher, Gratitude

  William Shakespeare (1772). “The Works of Shakespeare in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies and Corrected: with Notes Explanatory and Critical”, p.246

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• True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

  Hosea Ballou

  Reality, Imagination, Proportion

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• Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.

  Belle Starr

  Regret, Lying, Heart

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• One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

  Jim Rohn

  Relationship, Kindness, Condolences

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 10, 2017

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• I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.

  Laurence Sterne

  Giving Up, Heart, Kissing

  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.82

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• Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

  Philip James Bailey

  Heart, Men, Rights

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.40

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• It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Suffering, May

  Edmund Burke (1823). “A philosophical inquiry, etc”, p.54

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• To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

  Rebecca West

  Running, Hurt, Lying

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

  Margaret Fuller

  Real, Heart, Too Much

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.379, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Brave, Desire

  "The Spanish Drama". Book by George Henry Lewes. Chapter 2, 1846.

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• In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Disappointment

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.3149, Delphi Classics

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• How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

  Thomas Hood

  Condolences, Heart, Ears

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.295

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• Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Condolences, Compassion, Unhappy

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• I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Condolences, Giving, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.166, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

  Anna Katharine Green

  Condolences, Feet, Stones

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• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

  Samuel Smiles

  Condolences, Heart, Keys

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.237

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• When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

  Alexei Navalny

  Men, Russia, Political

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• Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

  Isaac Barrow

  Together, Band, Affection

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