Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day. Lyte.

Sworn to no master, of no sect am I; / As drives the storm, at any door I knock, / And house with Montaigne now, and now with Locke. Pope.

Syllables govern the world. Coke.

Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative 35 about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths. George Eliot.

Sympathising and selfish people are alike given to tears. Leigh Hunt.

Sympathy can create the boldness which no other means can evoke. Dr. Parker.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. Amiel.

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. Talfourd.

Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the 40 rich there is consolation. Disraeli.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. C. H. Parkhurst.