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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
"More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic."
"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
"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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