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Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
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.
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
I’m not looking for sympathy at all.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.