No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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