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3 December 2020 Alfred E. Smith

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

3 December 2020 Marcel Proust

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

3 December 2020 Henry Cabot Lodge

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

3 December 2020 Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.

3 December 2020 Francis Herbert Hedge

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person’s religion.

3 December 2020 Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

3 December 2020 Denis Kearney

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?

3 December 2020 Seth Green

There’s no greater way to gain an audience’s sympathy than by being unfortunate.

3 December 2020 Meister Eckhart

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

3 December 2020 Tom Paulin

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

3 December 2020 Bob Feller

Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

3 December 2020 Les Aspin

There’s a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration’s problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

3 December 2020 Paul Harris

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

3 December 2020 Corrie Ten Boom

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

3 December 2020 Clyde Tombaugh

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

3 December 2020 Xenophon

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

3 December 2020 Edward Gibbon

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

3 December 2020 Laura Carmichael

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

3 December 2020 Anthony Storr

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I’ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

3 December 2020 Ivan Turgenev

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

3 December 2020 Alex Ferguson

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I’ve always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people’s salaries.

3 December 2020 Alphonse de Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

3 December 2020 Nellie Bly

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

3 December 2020 Confucius

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

3 December 2020 Johnny Rotten

It’s no good being nice and young and naive. There’s no good in that at all. You’ve got to do it all yourself, and you’ve gotta learn quick. And you can’t look for sympathy either.

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