“The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.”
— Goldwin Smith
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“I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.”
— Major Taylor
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“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
— Marcel Proust
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“I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.”
— Billy Tauzin
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“A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.”
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
— Ovid
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“To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.”
— Ivan Turgenev
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“Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”
— Woodrow Wilson
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“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”
— Emma Goldman
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“According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.”
— John Buchanan Robinson
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“Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.”
— Evelyn Underhill
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