Sympathies Quotes
79 quotes by 71 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
— James Anthony Froude
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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
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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
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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
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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