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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.: Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
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He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.: Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.: Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
Virtue is indeed its own reward.: Claudianus
Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.: Lucan (39 AD - 65 AD)
Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light.: Felicia Hermans
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)

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