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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

  Samuel Butler

  Kind, Death Sympathy

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

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• The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

  Julian Barnes

  Outcast, Universal

  Flaubert's Parrot (1984) ch. 10

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• In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Agony, Perfect, Mourning

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• Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

  Robert Browning

  Needs, World, Teach

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is timeless....
  Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Doe, Lovers

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• We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

  William Hazlitt

  Determined, Sensibility

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.145

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• There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained

  Pierre Corneille

  Sweet, Ties, Soul

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• Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Pain, Men, Doe

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• Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

  Pliny the Elder

  Suicide, Men, Doe

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• All powerful souls have kindred with each other

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Powerful, Soul, Kindred

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.544

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• One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Wall, Men

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• We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Fire, Higher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, Рипол Классик

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

  Irving Babbitt

  Stress, Humanitarian, Breadth

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

  Orville Dewey

  Parades, Command, Misfortunes

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• A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

  Joseph Addison

  Brother, Suffering, Pity

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.175

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

  Henry Melvill

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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• Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Death, Condolences

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  Walter Winchell

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

  Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

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• Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

  Edwin Arnold

  Blood, Needs, Flesh

  Edwin Arnold (2016). “The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)”, p.79, Routledge

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• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Remember You

  "Fictional character: Reverend Robert Alden". TV Series "Little House on the Prairie" ("Remember Me: Part 1", 1975), www.imdb.com. 1974–1983.

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• All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Encouraging, Christian

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

  Yehuda Berg

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 07, 2016

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• Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

  Khalil Gibran

  Flower, Condolences, Grief

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