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is a faculty of substitution whereby we enter into the concerns of others, are moved as they are moved, and are, as it were, put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. Lillie Langtry

is next to love, the divinest passion of the human heart.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. Edmund Burke

is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: We rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another... and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another... and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another. William Godwin

 makes us feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinentif not inappropriateresponse.

So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinentif not inappropriateresponse. To set aside the sympathy we extend to others beset by war and murderous politics for a reflection on how our privileges are located on the same map as their suffering, and main ways we might prefer not to imaginebe linked to their suffering, as the wealth as some may imply the destitution of others, is a task for which the painful, stirring images supply only an initial spark.' Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

is distinguished from pity in that pit is an impersonal concern (which can manifest in the mailing of a check) whereas sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

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. Martin Luther King Jr.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. Henri Frederic Amiel

is often when one is in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

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