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"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Frances E. Willard
"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."
"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."
"This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time."
"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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