To give without sympathy is to build a temple without the idol and is as futile as painting a picture with black ink on a black-board. Chinmayananda Saraswati
Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. John Frederick Boyes Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
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? John Bright Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)