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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. — George Eliot
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. — Oscar Wilde
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them. — Princess Diana
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. — Leigh Hunt
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect… — Henry David Thoreau
He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who,… — Albert Einstein
Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion.… — Andrew Sean Greer
I’ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it’s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it… — Jared Leto
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. — Laura Carmichael
I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine, and my niece, Deborah, and I appreciate the many kind… — Olivia de Havilland
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's purpose during the… — Unknown Author
My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig… — Andrea Fay Friedman
It's neat for Kyle to win, ... I think you'd have sympathy for anybody if you put yourself in that situation and got taken out… — Greg Biffle
The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually,… — Nick Harkaway
A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy. — W.C. Fields
No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries.… — W.C. Fields
I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position… — Dave Reichert
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy… — William James
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any… — Leo Tolstoy
People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's… — Mike Tyson
Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.... — Soren Kierkegaard
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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