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

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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."

Robert Browning Hamilton, American Poet

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"There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is 'sympathy' - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will."

Timothy J. Keller, American Author

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"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."

Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Politician

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

Paul Harris, American Entertainer

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"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."

Charles E. Trevelyan, British Politician

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"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

Anne Sullivan, American Educator

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"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."

Harold Bloom, American Critic

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"I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me."

Daniel Johns, Australian Musician

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"I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls."

Lionel Blue, British Clergyman

Sympathy, End, Pity

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