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"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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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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"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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"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."
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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."
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"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world."
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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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"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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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
Art
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Life
"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Truth
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Age
"Order is power."
Power
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
Thought
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Life
"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
Fire
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
Quality
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
Talent
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