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79 Sympathies quotes by 71 unique authors

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being,… — Shinzo Abe
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of… — Mary Howitt
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space,… — Harold Bloom
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. — James Bridie
If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally. — George Eliot
To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and… — Mark Twain
I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in… — Jim Garrison
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search… — Marguerite Yourcenar
The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us… — Carl L. Becker
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and… — Benjamin Disraeli
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. — Henry David Thoreau
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies… — William E. Gladstone
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against… — John Ross Macduff
I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed… — Benjamin Disraeli
December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems… — Christopher Pearse Cranch
An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man… — James A. Baldwin
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies. — Richard Perle
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted… — George Santayana
I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause. — Sarah McLachlan
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader… — Sara Zarr
You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered. — Marc Rich
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. — Wallis Simpson
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind …. — Henry Clay

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