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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."

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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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"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."

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Donna Grant

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

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"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."

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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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"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."

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