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Sympathy: Quotations from Burning Words

The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur, and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest sympathies, because they have had the profoundest sorrows.— HENRY GILES

Lord, from success, its noise and glare, And often shallow life, Guide me to where Thy soldiers lie, Faint, wounded in the strife; Give me a brother's heart, I pray, To watch and help the weak to-day. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden - that is human sympathy.— CANON FARRAR

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.— JEREMY TAYLOR

There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.— OCTAVIUS WINSLOW

a Therefore, if you aspire to be a son of consolation, if you would partake of the priestly gift of sympathy - if you would pour something beyond common-place consolation into tempted heart - if you would pass through the daily intercourse of daily life with the delicate tact which never inflicts pain - if, to that most acute of human ailments, mental doubt, you are ever to give effectual succor, you must be content to pay the price of the costly education. Like Him, you must suffer - being tempted. I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.— ANNA L. WARING