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Quote by Ivan Turgenev
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound symp

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. – Ivan Turgenev

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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my countrys fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! – Ivan Turgenev

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alone
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesnt care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isnt extinguished, as long as death doesnt lose its rights. – Ivan Turgenev

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Sympathy with nature is part of a good persons religion. – Francis Herbert Hedge

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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing — deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. – John Galsworthy

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I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy. – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – William Shakespeare

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