"The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur, and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest sympathies, because they have had the profoundest sorrows."
— Sympathy

January 1, 1970

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Henry Giles, "The Moral Spirit of Byron's Genius", in Lectures and Essays (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, And Fields, 1850), Vol. I, p 149.