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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Oscar Wilde
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A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: 'Sing for us soon again;' that is as much as to say. 'May new sufferings torment your soul.'

Soren Kierkegaard
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If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

William Wilberforce
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides
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We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

Ludwig van Beethoven
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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

Arthur Henderson
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I appeal to those who, under force of the most difficult sufferings and losses, have decided to go down the path of martyrdom.

Aslan Maskhadov
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I have personally visited the factories, and witnessed the sufferings of the overworked children. but, my friends, you never heard of this. No, no, my speeches on the subject were all suppressed by the press.

Henry Hunt
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He who overcomes this fierce thirst, difficult to be conquered in this world, sufferings fall off from him, like water-drops from a lotus leaf.

Friedrich Max Muller
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There are sufferings which sympathy may not make lighter.

Lamennais
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Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

Alphonse De Lamartine
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

Therese Of Lisieux
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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Marie Antoinette
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka
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