There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.
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.
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.
All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.
Love is timeless. . . . Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise
After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.
Human sympathy has its limits.
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.
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.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
Sympathy is a sweet thing.
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . .