"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."

Sympathy, Affliction, Emotion, Humanity

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"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."

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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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"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."

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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."

Brownie McGhee, American Musician

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"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."

Morris Raphael Cohen, Russian Philosopher

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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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."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

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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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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

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"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."

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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."

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"Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."

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"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?"

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"Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world."

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"Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy."

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"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."

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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

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"Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself."

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"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

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