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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."
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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"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."
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"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
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"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."
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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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Nothing

"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself."
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"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."
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"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
Desire

"You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me.We must have a turn together,I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,Cushion me soft, rock me billowy drowse,Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you."
Nature

"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself."
Generosity

"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
God

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."
Nature

"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
Honesty
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