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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.
 The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy 
and sorrow.  
 The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy 
and sorrow. 
 But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is 
for our sympathies, for the manner read more 
 But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is 
for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for 
the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with 
regard to it? On which side shall we stand? 
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that read more
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
 Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
 War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
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 Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
 War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
  Making it momentany as a sound,
   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
        So quick bright things come to confusion. 
 We pine for kindred natures
 To mingle with our own.  
 We pine for kindred natures
 To mingle with our own. 
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
 The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and 
likeness.  
 The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and 
likeness. 
Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.
Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.