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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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?

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe.

World-wide apart, and yet akin, As showing that the human heart Beats on forever as of old.

For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard, The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me! Made answer to my word.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,