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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," Fortnightly Review.)
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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
(Catherine E. Beecher (1800-1878), U.S. educator, writer. "Statistics of Female Health," Woman Suffrage and Women's Professions (1871).)
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You love sack, and so do I; would you desire better sympathy?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Mrs. Page, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 2, sc. 1, l. 8-10.
Falstaff's way of making love to Mistress Page.)
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
(Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of Myself," sct. 48, Leaves of Grass (1855).)
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
(Ben Elton (b. 1959), British author, performer. "On the Business of Stark," Stark (1989).)
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Romola, ch. 48 (1863).)
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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Journals, entry, June 30, 1840 (1906).)
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In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
(H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 616, Knopf (1949).)
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The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Walking" (1862), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 240, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Paracelsus, pt. 1, l. 25-6 (1835).)
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