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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Oscar Wilde

Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.

Paul Eipper

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Oscar Wilde

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Bob Feller

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Confucius

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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Ben Elton

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Lillie Langtry

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.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... evening. I have just returned from St. Germain. Everything is settled--with more slyness on my part. I begin to think I am a born Jesuit; there must have been some detestable sympathy between Father Benwell ...

Wilkie Collins

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

John Fowles

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

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.

Aneurin Bevan

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. -- Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.

Leo Tolstoy

I?d be less than honest if I told you there was a great deal of sympathy for the net neutrality idea right now.

Art Brodsky

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