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in sympathy with

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We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. ...The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success...lies in adhering to the old principles of the party. Henry Campbell-Bannerman

I prefer Mexican to Mayan sculpture. Mexican stone sculptures have largeness of scale & a grim, sublime, austerity, a real stoniness. They were the true sculptors in sympathy with their material & their sculpture has some of the character of mountains, of boulders, rocks & sea worn pebbles. Henry Moore

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. Alan Hovhaness

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before. Fritz Sauckel

I will guide thee with mine eye " - a glance, not a blow - a look of directing love that at once heartens to duty, and tells duty. We must be very near Him to catch that look, and very much in sympathy with Him to understand it; but when we do, we must be swift to obey. Alexander Maclaren

The foot pains in sympathy with the toe. South African Proverb

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