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Sentiments Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
- In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not…
- Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal…
- I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human…
- Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
- Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the…
- We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
- I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in…
- The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
- The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
- In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more…
- Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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- Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
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- The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
- The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke
- Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. — Lord Chesterfield
- It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. — Grover Cleveland
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