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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Sympathy

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.
  • 2. Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
  • 3. To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent that is to triumph over old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.
  • 2. I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up and this was for the most part poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
  • 3. But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it the more amazed I am by being here at all.

3 Anger

  • 1. The ignorant mind with its infinite afflictions passions and evils is rooted in the three poisons. Greed anger and delusion.
  • 2. Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
  • 3. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
  • 3. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

5 Architecture

  • 1. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s and into my 30s I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
  • 2. People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course that's both liberating and alarming.
  • 3. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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