Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
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What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.
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1 Peter 3:8:
Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
(NIV)
Finally, all [of you] should be of one and the same mind (united in spirit), sympathizing [with one another], loving [each other] as brethren [of one household], compassionate and courteous (tenderhearted and humble).
(AMP)
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
(KJV)
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