“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
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sympathy
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Voices on sympathy
“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
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“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
“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.”
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
“Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.”
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”
“Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.”
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”