Sympathies Quotes

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This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family… — Gerard Arpey
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. — Henry Adams
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view,… — Willa Cather
The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They… — Henry McNeal Turner
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly… — Mark Twain
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. — James Anthony Froude
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a… — James Madison
Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our… — Vincent Van Gogh
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. — Oscar Wilde
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other… — Mark Twain
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole -- besides being an… — Karl Marx
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in… — Swami Vivekananda
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact… — Frank Herbert
Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy… — Paul Robeson
I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies… — Clarence Darrow
The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me… — Guy de Maupassant
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. — William James
True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

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