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I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it… — Julia Cameron
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. — Charles Darwin
In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others. — Paramahansa Yogananda
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people… — Abraham Maslow
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy. — Alexander Hamilton
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy… — Bernard Lewis
If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down.… — Unknown Author
It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she… — Helen Keller
May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy… — Helen Steiner Rice
It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy. — Bob Hope
Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and… — Michio Kushi
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. — Gretel Ehrlich
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than… — Margaret E. Knight
Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open… — Unknown Author
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a… — Immanuel Kant
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that… — Bertrand Russell
You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide. — Roddy Piper
I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action. — Hazel Hawke
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life. — Simon Heffer
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. — Oscar Wilde
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly… — Albert Schweitzer
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death is the most blessed dream. — Georg Buchner

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