"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."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Sympathy, Existence, Happiness, Life

"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Sympathy, Justification, Loneliness, Behavior

"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."

Timothy J. Keller, American Author

Sympathy, Friendship, Passion, Unity

"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."

Erich von Stroheim, Austrian Actor

Sympathy, Feeling, Right

"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."

Kate Smith, American Musician

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"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."

Morris Raphael Cohen, Russian Philosopher

Sympathy, Philosophy, Present, Will

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

Anne Sullivan, American Educator

Sympathy, Children, Guidance

"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."

Alfred E. Smith, American Politician

Sympathy, People, Constitution, Law

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

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Sympathy, Mathematics, Philosophy

"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."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Sympathy, Affliction, Emotion, Humanity

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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."

"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."

"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."

"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."

"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."

"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."

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

"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."

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

"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."

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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."

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