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Sympathy: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness. AMOS BRONSON ALCOTt- Table-Talk. Sympathy. Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood.— EDWIN ARNOLD — Light of Asia. Bk. VI. L. 73.
But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with regard to it? On which side shall we stand?— JOHN BRIGHT — Speech on Slavery and
Secession. Feb. 3, 1863. I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me, and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 72.
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee.— BYRON — Stanzas to Augusta.
Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 23.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.— CARLYLE — Essays. Goethe's Works.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. VI. L. 1.
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch. S.— DRYDEN — Mariage à la Mode. Act II. Sc. I.
The human heart Finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. IV.
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.— EMERSON — Representative Men.
Montaigne. The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is than a thousand kinsmen of more worth.— EURIPIDES — Orestes. L. 846.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.— GIBBON — Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. XLIX.
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.— GOLDSMITH — The Deserted Village. L. 166,
The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow. J. C. AND A. W. HARE-Guesses at Truth. O! ask not, hope thou not too much Of sympathy below; Few are the hearts whence one same touch Bids the sweet fountains flow.— MRS. HEMANS — Kindred Hearts.
We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own. C.— MRS. HEMANS — Psyche borne by
Zephyrs to the Island of Pleasure. Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. XVIII. L. 269.
Pope's trans. A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within him that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.— GEORGE HENRY LEWES — The Spanish Drama. Ch. II.
World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart Beats on forever as of old.— LONGFELLOW — Tales of a Wayside Inn. Pt. III. The Theologian's Tale.
Interlude. But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.— LOWELL — An Incident in a Railroad Car. St. 20.