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"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."
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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."
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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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"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."
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"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world."
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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."
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"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."
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"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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"We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living."
Sympathy
"Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks."
Heart
"Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!"
Chance
"It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles."
Conscience
"The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit."
Death
"Be always sure you are right - then go ahead."
Confidence
"Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them."
Party
"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas."
Hell
"Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others."
People
"I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog."
Man
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