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• Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

  David Hume

  Vain, Cases, Accuracy

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

  Graham Russell

  Song, Different, Way

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• Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, War, Dying

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• Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

  Gertrude Stein

  Long, Parent, Certain

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.202, Vintage

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• Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Animal, Hatred, Humanity

  Konrad Lorenz (2003). “Man Meets Dog”, p.66, Routledge

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• I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

  Mike Mills

  Hate, Sadness, Thinking

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• Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

  Krist Novoselic

  Poet, Raised, Theodore

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• Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Selfish, Heart, Never Trust

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• Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

  Jim Harrison

  Dream, People, Vision

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.190, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Death, Hands

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• Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

  Sophocles

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 685,

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

  Cornelia Funke

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• Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

  Norman Mailer

  Emotional, Sentiments, Promiscuity

  Cannibals and Christians (1966) p. 51

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• Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

  Anthony Brandt

  Change, Family, Grandparent

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• What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Birthday, Beautiful, Wise

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• Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

  Mary Ruefle

  Writing, Poetry Is, Redundancy

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.51, Wave Books

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• Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

  Red Skelton

  Funny, Running, Laughter

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• Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

  Aristotle

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

  Winona Ryder

  Sad, Cynical, Junk

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• I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

  Patrick Stewart

  Canvas, Absurd, Should

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• Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

  Pema Chodron

  Warrior, Inspire, Everyday

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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

  David Viscott

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

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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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