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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
Income
"Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking."
Education
"Style is the image of character."
Character
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
Love
"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
Self-Education
"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
Freedom
"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."
Hope
"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."
People
"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."
Government
"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."
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"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."
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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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"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
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"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."
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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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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
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"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."
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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
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