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Octavius Winslow Quote
“There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more—there is action . The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help .”
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