Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. – Louise J. Kaplan

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Ive always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. Youre trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what thats about so you can represent it. – Edward Norton

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Criticism in the universities, Ill have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. Its Stalinism without Stalin. – Harold Bloom

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