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«It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.»
«Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate»
Author: John Muir | About: World | Keywords: polished, rigidly, sympathy, touching
«Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: relation, sympathy
«Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.»
«No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.»
«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.»
«It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.»
«I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.»
«No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.»
«No one likes a fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.»

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