Never elated while one man's oppress'd, Never dejected while another's blessed.
- Alexander Pope
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise.
- Anna Letitia Waring
A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.
- Anonymous
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.
- Alexander Pope
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
- Bible
Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard, The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me! Made answer to my word.
- Christina G Rossetti
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
- Ed Howe
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
- Edwin Arnold
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
- Euripides
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
We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
- Mrs Felicia D Hemans
Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.
- Paul Eipper
Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.
- Charles Dickens
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe.
- Homer
World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart Beats on forever as of old.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.
- John Milton
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.
- John Dryden
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
- Oscar Wilde
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.
- Sir Walter Scott
Of a truth, men are mystically united, a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
- Thomas Carlyle
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
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up, So quick bright things come to confusion.
- William Shakespeare
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
- William Cowper
