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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Written by Emma Goldman
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Written by Henry David Thoreau
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Written by Malcolm Forbes
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Written by Marcus Tullius Cicero
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Written by Jesse Jackson
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Written by Oscar Wilde
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
Written by P. J. O'Rourke
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
Written by William James
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Written by Benjamin Disraeli
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
Written by Bob Feller
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Written by Anne Sullivan
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Written by Walt Whitman
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Written by Henri Frederic Amiel
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Written by Robert Browning
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Written by Aneurin Bevan
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Written by Edward Gibbon
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
Written by William E. Gladstone
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
Written by George MacDonald
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
Written by Francis Herbert Hedge
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
Written by Jerome K. Jerome
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Written by Florence Nightingale
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
Written by Charles Henry Parkhurst
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
Written by Anthony Storr
More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
Written by John Hall
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.
Written by Havelock Ellis
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
Written by George William Russell
There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
Written by Seth Green

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