Cold Quote by Edward Gibbon Download Open image “Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.” — Edward Gibbon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cold Misery Relation Sympathy
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered. — W. Sangster Copy Share Image
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe. — Rose Pastor Stokes Copy Share Image
“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is… — Mona Caird Copy Share Image
In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
Of course Messi could handle a cold Tuesday night in Stoke. He'd be drinking tea and relaxing beforehand. Me? I'd probably be the same. — Neymar Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax… — George Mason Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
You start playing when it's cold and you want to be playing when it's cold again. — Jimy Williams Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.' — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image