Famous Quotes

"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

• "A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

• "As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life."

• "To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

• "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."