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"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
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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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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
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"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."
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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
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"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Truth
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Life
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Age
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
Thought
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Life
"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."
Systems
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
Quality
"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
Talent
"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."
Man
"The only substance properly so called is the soul."
Soul
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