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• Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.

  David Hume

  Wise, Opposites, Miracle

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.42, Stanford University Press

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Nurse, Grace

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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• That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Country, Race, Common Humanity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 442), 1895.

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• Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

  Edgar Degas

  Important, Realism

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• Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

  Sarah Dessen

  Flower, Apology, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.148, Penguin

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• Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Writing, Color

  Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Illustr. by explanatory notes & plates by John Burnet”, p.28

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• What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fashion, Learning, Feelings

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.

  Arthur Helps

  Character, Errors, Feelings

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.

  Dogen

  Buddhism, World, Study

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.

  Stanley Milgram

  Expectations, Focus, Acting

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• The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

  Charles Sumner

  Believe, Book, Mean

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.1564, Library of Alexandria

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• Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.

  Ramakrishna

  Spirit, Form, Wells

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary - yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.

  John Constable

  Bears, Alive, Solemnity

  John Constable (1966). “John Constable's Correspondence”

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• Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.

  William Symington

  Long, May, Scripture

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• Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

  Ogden Nash

  Drinking, Heart, Wine

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• Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

  Samuel Johnson

  Dresses, Would Be, Employment

  Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham”, p.55

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• Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Foundation, Essentials

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.53

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• A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all, sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life.

  Charles Eley

  Long, Tree, Feelings

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• But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Love, Beautiful, Conjugal

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• Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Perfect, Emotion

  Thomas Merton (1998). “Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected”, p.26, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Natural, Oneself

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

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• A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Majority, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.220, Library of America

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

  Edmund Burke

  Nurse, Evil, Grace

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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• Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Bleach, Next, Bonsai

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing

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