Sympathy quotes

‘Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart’

– Edmund Burke

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

– Confucius

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Sympathy does not think.
It acts.
It acts to remove
The ceaseless sufferings
Of the world.

– Sri Chinmoy

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” Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one’s life,
sympathy and the feeling of oneness.
There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .”

– Sri Chinmoy

“Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.”

– William Shakespeare
King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at I, i)

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“A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.”
– Anonymous

In Sympathy Quotes

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. “

~Kahlil Gibran

“He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. “

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

~Rossiter Worthington Raymond

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