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title: "6 Sympathy Living Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/davy-crockett/we-must-not-permit-our-respect-for-the-dead-or-our-sympathy-for-the/)

[Davy Crockett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/davy-crockett/)

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> [I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-do-know-that-for-the-sympathy-of-one-living-being-i-would-make/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/to-cultivate-sympathy-you-must-be-among-living-creatures-and-thinking/)

[John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/)

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> [Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/character-is-made-of-duty-and-love-and-sympathy-and-above-all-of/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/it-is-because-sympathy-is-but-a-living-again-through-our-own-past-in/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [“sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/sympathy-is-but-a-living-again-through-our-own-past-in-a-new-form/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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