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my heart bleeds for you

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  1. I don't feel at all sorry for you, I don't sympathize, as in You only got a five percent raise? My heart bleeds for you. Originating in the late 1300s, this hyperbolic expression of sympathy has been used ironically since the mid-1700s.


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Your intellect is touched!—I am sure my heart bleeds for you!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

Ah, my brother, my heart bleeds for you.

From The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons by Arthur Symons

Now you know, Margaret, that while my heart bleeds for you both, I ask you to release my son.”

From Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Alas, how you are to be pitied! my heart bleeds for you, and I fear that a few months will suffice to prove to you the truth of what I now write.

From Valerie by Frederick Marryat

"René, René," said the other, "my heart bleeds for you."

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell

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