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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

4.7 · 38 votes

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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

3.0 · 53 votes · 115 reads

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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.

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Teresa of Calcutta

MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

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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?

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ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

4.6 · 46 votes

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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

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PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

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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.

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4.5 · 28 votes

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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

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PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

3.3 · 46 votes · 133 reads

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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.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

3.8 · 24 votes

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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Sympathy

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

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Amos Bronson Alcott

EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

3.0 · 31 votes · 195 reads

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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
George Eliot
WriterBritish1819 · 19th century
4.3 · 10 votes · 116 reads
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.8 · 9 votes · 118 reads
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frédéric Amiel
WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century
4.0 · 45 votes · 87 reads
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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.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.5 · 62 votes · 143 reads
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century
3.1 · 36 votes · 98 reads
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
George Santayana
PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century
4.2 · 15 votes · 166 reads
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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.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
3.5 · 35 votes · 133 reads
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century
3.3 · 18 votes · 164 reads
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