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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about love, friendship

In my judgement, there is a basic popular sympathy for...

In my judgement, there is a basic popular sympathy for Israel in France, but the demonstrative sympathy tends to go to the other side.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about judgment

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about progress, faith, future, people

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth...

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about stress, knowledge

The true humanist maintains a just balance between...

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Quote by Irving Babbitt

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Quote by Harold Bloom about criticism

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about friendship, rules, word

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

Quote by Ted Olson about people, numbers, love, contentment

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer...

Quote by William Golding about opinion, old, vice, americans, beauty, character, age, olderness, people

I have every sympathy with the American who was so...

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

HQuote by Henry George Strauss about irony, smokers, americans

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast...

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.

Quote by Julian Patrick Barnes about writers, nature

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