Our Sympathy Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for…
— John Dufresne
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The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an…
— Martha Stout
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We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
— William H. Seward
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To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World…
— Joseph Needham
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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.
— Orison Swett Marden
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No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
— Samuel Johnson
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Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have…
— Eamon de Valera
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Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only…
— Nikki Haley
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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 injustice to the…
— Davy Crockett
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
— Edward Gibbon
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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 injustice to the…
— Davy Crockett
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...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
— Helen Keller
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Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most…
— Thomas Mann
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We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
— William Hazlitt
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump…
— Iain McGilchrist
Who Wrote These Our Sympathy Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Our Sympathy Quotes as follows: