“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
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“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
— William Blake
Author: William Blake
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“You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.”
— Haruki Murakami
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“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”
— Malcolm Forbes
Author: Malcolm Forbes
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“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?”
— Denis Kearney
Author: Denis Kearney
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“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
— Voltaire
Author: Voltaire
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“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
— Ann Landers
Author: Ann Landers
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“Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.”
— Louise J. Kaplan
Author: Louise J. Kaplan
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“The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.”
— Irving Babbitt
Author: Irving Babbitt
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“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”
— Marlo Thomas
Author: Marlo Thomas
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