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

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."

Louise J. Kaplan, American Psychoanalyst

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"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."

Johnny Rotten, English Musician

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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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"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."

John Irving, American Novelist

Sympathy, People, Fact, Laughter

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"

Denis Kearney, American Politician

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"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."

Tom Ford, American Designer

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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

Sympathy, Friendship, Passion, Unity

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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."

"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."

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

"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."

"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."

"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."

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

"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"

"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."

"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."

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"I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear."

"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be."

"I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying."

"The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges."

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"No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me."