A Quote by Torquato Tasso
A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.
If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
I gave you sympathy. *I* want sympathy!" "Are you kidding me? You have the sexiest man on the planet wanting you. You're getting laid regularly. No sympathy for you!
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.
Golf giveth and golf taketh away. But it taketh away a hell of a lot more than it giveth.
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.
A friend gives hope when life is low, a friend is a place when you have nowhere to go, a friend is honest, a friend is true. A friend is precious a friend is u.
But what have I, but what have I, my friend,
To give you, what can you receive from me?
Only the friendship and the sympathy
Of one about to reach her journey's end.
If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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