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Quote by Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. - Edward G

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. – Edward Gibbon

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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. – Edward Gibbon

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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. – Edward Gibbon

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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 ones soul. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. – Rita Schiano, Sweet Bitter Love, 1997, published by The Reed Edwards Company

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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. – Richard M. Nixon

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