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• Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Philosophy, Sometimes, Speculation

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

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• Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

  George Washington

  Differences, Religion, Acrimony

  George Washington (1858). “The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.309

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• In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Artist, Order

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1428, Delphi Classics

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• It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Memories

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

  Edmund Burke

  Character, Civilization, Mind

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• I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are so well made that they’re achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.

  Frederick Seidel

  Upset, Daggers, Made

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• The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Reading, Class, Poetry

  Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith”

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• The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Bias And Prejudice, Safety

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Boys, Men, May

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.76, Routledge

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• Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Musical, Assassins, Harmony

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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• I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Advocating

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• We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spring, Sunday, Air

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users sentiments.

  Meg Whitman

  Understanding, Littles, Sometimes

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• Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Revenge, Noble, Humans

  "Rudy Giuliani 'Wanted to Be the One' to Kill Osama Bin Laden" by Ben Forer, abcnews.go.com. May 2, 2011.

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• The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.

  Richard Mitchell

  Children, Emotional, Agency

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• Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Honesty, Oneness, Effort

  "A Plea for Solidarity". The International Socialist Review, Vplume XIV, No. 9, March 1914.

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• The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Men, Giving

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• . . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Blood, Sea

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3670, Manonmani Publishers

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• Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

  Martyn

  Passion, Love Is, Obedience

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• There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

  William Winwood Reade

  Father, Believe, Angel

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.395

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• With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Family, Baby, Sweet

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Language, Ancient, Modern

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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• It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Men, Duration

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Expression, Excellence

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.76

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• A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.

  Ferdinand Foch

  War, Ideas, Political

  Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

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