"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." ― Thomas Paine Topic(s): Sympathy Tags: smiles More From Thomas Paine "‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." More In Sympathy "I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it."― Edward Norton "My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."― Brownie McGhee "IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom’s Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction."― Carl Clinton Van Doren