Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke






OFFICE OF SYMPATHY.

Whenever we are formed by nature to any active purpose, the passion which animates us to it is attended with delight, or a pleasure of some kind, let the subject-matter be what it will; and as our Creator had designed that we should be united by the bond of sympathy, he has strengthened that most wanted,—in the distresses of others.




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