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3 December 2020 Moliere

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

3 December 2020 Gary Ackerman

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

3 December 2020 Harry Browne

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can’t have perfection in a world of limited resources.

3 December 2020 Stafford Cripps

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

3 December 2020 David Chalmers

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

3 December 2020 Brownie McGhee

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

3 December 2020 Lillie Langtry

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

3 December 2020 S. J. Perelman

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

3 December 2020 Max Beerbohm

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

3 December 2020 Henry Ossawa Tanner

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

3 December 2020 Major Taylor

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.

3 December 2020 Kate Smith

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I’ve reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

3 December 2020 Anne Grant

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

3 December 2020 Malcolm Forbes

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

3 December 2020 Alan Hovhaness

It’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

3 December 2020 Tim Kaine

I’m not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who’s going to win, and I’m not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who’s going to lose.

3 December 2020 George MacDonald

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

3 December 2020 Michael Ealy

There’s something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

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

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

3 December 2020 W. H. Davies

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

3 December 2020 Thomas More

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

3 December 2020 Florence Nightingale

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

3 December 2020 Barbara Sher

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

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