"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."
― John Burns
Topic(s):
Sympathy
― John Burns
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- "You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."
- "In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience."
More In Sympathy
- "I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."― Joseph Addison
- "Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all."― Queen Elizabeth II