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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38066/view">Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/96/Amos_Bronson_Alcott">Alcott, Amos Bronson</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38067/view">Sympathy is the first condition of criticism..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/164/Henri_Frederic_Amiel">Amiel, Henri Frederic</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38068/view">One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/210/Jean_Anouilh">Anouilh, Jean</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38069/view">The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/405/Nicholson_Baker">Baker, Nicholson</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38070/view">The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/585/Catharine_Esther_Beecher">Beecher, Catharine Esther</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38071/view">Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/769/William_Blake">Blake, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38072/view">Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1519/Randolph_Churchill">Churchill, Randolph</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38073/view">All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1612/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge">Coleridge, Samuel Taylor</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38074/view">The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2015/Princess_of_Wales_Diana">Diana, Princess of Wales</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38075/view">Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2121/John_W._Draper">Draper, John W.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38076/view">Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2267/George_Eliot">Eliot, George</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38077/view">Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38078/view">Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2895/Johann_Wolfgang_Von_Goethe">Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38079/view">Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3293/B._R._Hayden">Hayden, B. R.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38080/view">Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3652/Leigh_Hunt">Hunt, Leigh</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38081/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4042/Jr._Martin_Luther_King">King Jr. Martin Luther</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38082/view">Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5164/Teresa_Mother">Mother Teresa</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38083/view">Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5349/Florence_Nightingale">Nightingale, Florence</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38084/view">Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5564/Charles_H._Parkhurst">Parkhurst, Charles H.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38085/view">Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5703/Pablo_Picasso">Picasso, Pablo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38086/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6230/Theodore_Roosevelt">Roosevelt, Theodore</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38087/view">We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6287/Jean_Jacques_Rousseau">Rousseau, Jean Jacques</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38088/view">There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6431/George_Santayana">Santayana, George</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38089/view">The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7585/Simone_Weil">Weil, Simone</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38090/view">And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7684/Walt_Whitman">Whitman, Walt</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38091/view">There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/38092/view">Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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