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Sympathy When thy gazeTurns it on thine own soul, be most severe:But when it falls upon a fellow-manLet kindliness control it; and refrainFrom that belittling censure that springs forthFrom common lips like weeds from marshy soil. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels,I myself become the wounded person. Walt Whitman. 同情 “最悲哀地莫过于把所有的精力都凝聚在自己身上。。。。。。。”Ella Wheeler Wilcox “见到伤者不闻不问，那么自己也会受伤” -----沃尔特。怀特曼 We can only sympathize with others in so far as we have conquered ourselves. We cannot think and feel for others while we are engaged in condoling with and pitying ourselves; cannot deal tenderly and lovingly with others while we are anxious for our own pre-eminence or for the exclusive preservation of ourselves, our opinions, and our own generally. What is sympathy but thoughtfulness for others in the forgetfulness of self? 只有征服自己我们才会同情他人。当我们一味地同情自己或可怜自己的时候，我们无法为他人着想或同情他人；当我们为自己的卓越才能和独有的观点沾沾自喜时，我们也不可能和蔼而又亲切地同他人相处。忘却自己但不为他人着想下的同情是什么？ To sympathize with others we must first understand them, and to understand them we must put away all personal preconceptions concerning them, and must see them as they are. We must enter into their inner state and become one with them, looking through their mental eyes and comprehending the range of their experience. You cannot, of course, do this with a being whose wisdom and experience are greater than your own; nor can you do it with any if you regard yourself as being on a higher plane than others (for egotism and sympathy cannot dwell together), but you can practise it with all those who are involved in sins and sufferings from which you have successfully extricated yourself, and, though your sympathy cannot embrace and overshadow the man whose greatness is beyond you, yet you can place yourself in such an attitude towards him as to receive the protection of his larger sympathy and so make for yourself an easier way out of the sins and sufferings b