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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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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – 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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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James

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

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