To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Ivan Turgenev
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. -
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. -
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. -
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. -
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