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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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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?"

"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."

"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."

"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."

"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"
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