Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Thomas Carlyle
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Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.
Brown Campbell
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
Ted Olson
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher
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I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
A. N. Wilson
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The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.
F. W. de Klerk
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The German soldiers, that is, the workers and peasants, will in the majority of cases have far more sympathy for the vanquished peoples than for their own ruling caste. The necessity to act at every step in the capacity of 'pacifiers' and oppressors will swiftly disintegrate the armies of occupation, infecting them with a revolutionary spirit.
Leon Trotsky
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
Dorothy Day
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
Anson Mount
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The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
S. C. Gwynne
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All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
Zoe Lister-Jones
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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
Larry Wall
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Thomas Carlyle
