Sentimental Quotes

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Success, Wisdom

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.143, Penguin

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• But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

  Honore de Balzac

  Positive, Cutting, Infinite

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.87, 谷月社

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• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Views, Too Much

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• Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Single, Hurt

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• A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

  Grover Cleveland

  Inspirational Life, Lying, Patriotic

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

  Phyllis Diller

  Growing Up, Children, Silly

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, Mean, Compassion

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  For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  Love, Funny, Romantic

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• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

  David Viscott

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

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• I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

  Frances Farmer

  Friendship, Best Friend, Thank You

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• 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  I Love You, Valentines Day, I Love Him

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• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Way, Sentiments, Wrong Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Communication, Share

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• What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Women, Wine

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

  Mary Astor

  Journey, Differences, Sameness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.

  John Elway

  Sports, Knows, Ifs

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• In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

  Pepper Schwartz

  Moving, Opportunity, Next Level

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• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Decision, Political, Mold

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• The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

  Mark Van Doren

  Life, Jobs, Loss

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• I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sentimentality

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• Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

  Carl Jung

  Covering, Brutality, Sentimentality

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• Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Political, Politics

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• We live in the best of all possible worlds

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Optimistic

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2008). “Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology”, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

  Richard Bach

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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• It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Healthy, Jam, Emotion

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