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Letter "S" » Sympathy
«Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.»
«Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.»
«Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Affection,
Character,
Kindness,
Love,
Sympathy,
Tenderness
| Keywords:
affectionate, helped, thoughtful
«Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart»
«Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.»
«Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.»
«I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Suffering,
Sympathy
| Keywords:
sympathize, sympathized, sympathizes, sympathize with, sympathizing
«His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be»
«Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Sympathy
| Keywords:
constitutes, opposing, strives
«All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Selfishness,
Sympathy
| Keywords:
acknowledged, disguised
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