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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 are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.