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

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."

"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."

"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."

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

"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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"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."

"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process."

"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all."
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