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Sympathy Quotes
Gentle words for hard moments.
This page gathers reflections on how people respond to sorrow and loss, including the idea that mourning can sharpen rather than dull the mind. Several lines touch on how we Feel and the value of walking alongside someone rather than past them.
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What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
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Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
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There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.
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Jamal Khashoggi was a Muslim Brotherhood operative, and so I don't really feel sympathy for him.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
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Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
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