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"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."

Goldwin Smith on Sympathy

More quotes about Sympathy

• "That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

  William Wordsworth on Sympathy

• "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

  Corrie Ten Boom on Sympathy

• "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

  Saint Augustine on Sympathy

• "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."

  Khalil Gibran on Sympathy

• "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

  William Shakespeare on Sympathy

More quotes by Goldwin Smith

• "Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."

• "Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."

• "Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."

• "As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."

• "Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."