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" Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know. "

" 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

" 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

" A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. "

William R. Alger

" Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere. "

" After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left. "

Morrie Schwartz

" AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s. "

" All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists. "

" Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. "

Julian Fellowes

" Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! "

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

" Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. "

Harriet Beecher Stowe

" Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem. "

" Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. "

George William Russell

" 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. "

" As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us. "

Steven Curtis Chapman

" As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog. "

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

" A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. "

" Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well. "

" Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. "

Robert Browning

" Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them. "

Juliette Gordon Low

" Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. "

" 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

" Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. "

" But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. "

Hjalmar Schacht

" 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? "

" Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer. "

" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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