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• Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

  James Q. Wilson

  Inspirational, Self, People

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• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

  James Burnham

  Emotional, Glowing, Color

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• To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Peace, Powerful, War

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.159, Coventry House Publishing

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• I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Men, Emotional

  Tangent Interview, www.tangentonline.com. June 9, 2012.

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• To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

  Lucy Stone

  Truth, Justice, Noble

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Real, World, Action

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.214

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• Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.

  George Washington

  Country, Self, Mind

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• There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.

  Michael Pollan

  Dog, Intelligent, Compassion

  "An Animal's Place" by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2002.

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• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  Larry Harvey

  Real, Struggle, Community

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• I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love Is, Men, Two

  Anthony Trollope (1867). “Tales of All Countries”, p.86

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• The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

  Gordon Allport

  Faith, Religious, Doubt

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• There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying to get rid of that hard feeling when you see other peoples' sufferings; this is not a compassion, but just an instinct will to defence yourself from misfortunes of others. But there is another compassion - real one, that demands for actions, not sentiments, it knows what it wants, and it is full of determination to do everything, what is in human power and even beyond it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Dream, Determination

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• The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to be persecuted than to persecute." ... "Be not prone to anger." ... "He who giveth alms in secret is greater than Moses himself." ... "It is better to utter a short prayer with devotion than a long one without fervor." ... "He who having but one piece of bread in his basket, and says, What shall I eat tomorrow? is a man of little faith."

  Frederic Farrar

  Life, Prayer, Philosophy

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• All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Ordinary

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• From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Exercise, Ideas

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• The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

  Thomas More

  Life, Death, Animal

  Thomas More (2016). “More: Utopia”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.

  George Washington

  Taken, Men, Sheep

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.562

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• All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

  Charles Brockden Brown (1987). “Somnambulism and other stories”, Peter Lang Publishing

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• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  Sallust

  Anger, Mind, Firsts

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• Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Children, Character

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.201

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• If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.

  Christopher Isherwood

  World, Want, Single Man

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• Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

  Fidel Castro

  Mean, Ideas, Important

  Fidel Castro (2006). “Che: A Memoir”, p.91, Ocean Press

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• Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Heart, Character

  Adams' commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims, Plymouth, December 22, 1802.

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• The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

  John Galsworthy

  Sacrifice, Prepared, Amount

  John Galsworthy (2009). “25 Plays”, p.488, Wildside Press LLC

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• I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Feelings, Independence

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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