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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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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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Edward Gibbon
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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. – Aneurin Bevan

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Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. – Xenophon

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The cure for sorrow is to learn something. – Barbara Sher

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Grief changes shape, but it never ends. – Keanu Reeves

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