“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”
— Jesse Jackson
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We must not permit our respect for
“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.”
— Davy Crockett
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My mother listened to all the news
“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
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Autumn wins you best by this its
“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
— Robert Browning
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You have to have sympathy for and
“You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.”
— Laura Carmichael
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
— Confucius
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We are living at a time when
“We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.”
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Many of the artists who have represented
“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.”
— Henry Ossawa Tanner
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To all those who have suffered as
“To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.”
— Queen Elizabeth II
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The only cure for grief is action.
“The only cure for grief is action.”
— George Henry Lewes
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I very much dislike the intolerance and
“I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.”
— A. N. Wilson
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