Quotes with sympathy

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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Alfred E. Smith It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Graham Greene It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Eliot Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Agnes Smedley My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Emma Goldman No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne Our friends are chosen for us by some hidden law of sympathy, and not by our conscious wills.
    Youth and life (1913)
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Edward Gibbon Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Kate Millet Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Martin Luther King Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Campbell Brown Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ben Elton Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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