Do not hesitate to tell them your griefs; and you will realise that it is their joy and comfort to sympathise with you in all your troubles, little or great, and to try to relieve them.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
As it gets farther and farther from ourselves, indeed, we sympathise less with it; nothing, we say to ourselves, can have intelligence unless we understand all about it-as though intelligence in all except ourselves meant the power of being understood rather than of understanding.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
A short silence fell, then: "Do you know," said Lady Mary, "I cannot sympathise with any of the people who lost their property.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer