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title: "6 Friendship Sympathy Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling-2/i-believe-that-lack-of-empathy-is-behind-many-problems-and-i-believe/)

[J. K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling-2/)

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> [But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/but-what-have-i-but-what-have-i-my-friend-to-give-you-what-can-you/)

[T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/)

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> [There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-duhigg/there-s-a-natural-instinct-embedded-in-friendship-a-sympathy-that/)

[Charles Duhigg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-duhigg/)

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> [Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/literary-friendship-is-a-sympathy-not-of-manners-but-of-feelings/)

[Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/)

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> [“You will go on, and when you have prevailed You can say: at this point many a one has failed. But what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot-2/you-will-go-on-and-when-you-have-prevailed-you-can-say-at-this-point/)

[T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot-2/)

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> [“You are invulnerable, you have no Achilles’ heel. You will go on, and when you have prevailed You can say: at this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot-2/you-are-invulnerable-you-have-no-achilles-heel-you-will-go-on-and/)

[T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot-2/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/t-s-eliot-2-1761_friendship_you-are-invulnerable-you-have-no-achille_2200067.jpg)

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