A sympathy in choice. [ William Shakespeare ]
Of a truth men are mystically united. [ Carlyle ]
The soul of conversation is sympathy. [ William Hazlitt ]
True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
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. [ Walter Scott ]
Sympathy is especially a Christian duty. [ Spurgeon ]
There is in souls a sympathy with pounds. [ Cowper ]
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;
How soft the music of those village bells.
Falling at intervals upon the ear,
In cadence sweet, now dying all away. [ Cowper ]
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. [ C. H. Parkhurst ]
To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. [ Bryant ]
Sympathy of manners makes conjunction of minds. [ Proverb ]
What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say. [ William Shakespeare ]
No heart opens to sympathy without letting in delicacy. [ J. M. Barrie ]
Sympathy with Nature is a part of the good man's religion. [ F. H. Hedge ]
The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. [ Orville Dewey ]
Sympathy can create the boldness which no other means can evoke. [ Dr. Parker ]
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues. [ Bovee ]
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it. [ Hazlitt ]
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. [ Chapin ]
Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the rich there is consolation. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful. [ Parke Godwin ]
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. [ George MacDonald ]
Uprightness, judgment, and sympathy with others will profit thee at every time and in every place. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. [ Amiel ]
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Sympathy is a relationship of the heart and mind: between two persons of different sex the senses enter the relationship. [ A. Dupuy ]
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language. [ Mackintosh ]
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. [ Chapin ]
No character was ever rightly understood until it had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance only, but of sympathy. [ Carlyle ]
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. [ Joseph Roux ]
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. [ Lowell ]
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. [ Thoreau ]
In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole. [ Sir W. Hamilton ]
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever. [ O. W. Holmes ]
To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. [ Ruskin ]
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. [ Talfourd ]
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity, than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect. [ Jane Porter ]
Men with gray eyes are generally keen, energetic, and at first cold; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow. Search the ranks of our benevolent men and you will agree with me. [ Dr. Leask ]
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. [ A. B. Alcott ]
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be. so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources. [ Horace Greeley ]
It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone. [ Emerson ]
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all. [ Emerson ]
Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant. [ Hazlitt ]
Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous; as it can only be preserved among esteemable persons, it forces us to resemble them; you find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, and succor in our distress. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
Much that is published as a novel is only anonymous biography. Many a man who is a bore in conversation may have qualities which give indescribable charms to narrative; and the egotist, if he only have the art to conceal his identity, can then hold the reader by the powerful grasp of sympathy. [ R. S. Mackenzie ]
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. [ Thoreau ]
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold, a woman adds to it her sympathy. A small sum in the hands of a woman does more good than a hundred times as much in the hands of a man. Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. [ E. Legouve ]
Friendship is one of the greatest boons God can bestow on man. It is a union of our finest feelings; an uninteresting binding of hearts, and a sympathy between two souls. It is an indefinable trust we repose in one another, a constant communication between two minds, and an unremitting anxiety for each other's souls. [ J. Hill ]
It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world. [ Novalis ]
Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful; the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. [ M. Martell ]