“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”
— Richard M. Nixon
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I believe that we must reach our
“I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.”
— Dorothy Day
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Because I select my players from a
“Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.”
— Erich von Stroheim
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Grief is only the memory of widowed
“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”
— James Martineau
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves
“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”
— Orison Swett Marden
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation
“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
— Edward Gibbon
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I would rather be kept alive in
“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”
— Aneurin Bevan
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The cure for sorrow is to learn
“The cure for sorrow is to learn something.”
— Barbara Sher
Author: Barbara Sher
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A person who has sympathy for mankind
“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.”
— Irving Babbitt
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Marriage must be a relation either of
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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