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• I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

  George Stephenson

  Execution, Plans, Obliged

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• No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Passion, Heart, Hypocrite

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 319, 1732.

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• I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

  John Woolman

  Truth, Men, Simplicity

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude by William Penn”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

  Leland Stanford

  Selfish, Men, Views

  "Social insight rings true 125 years on" by Lee Altenberg, "Nature", vol. 490, p. 487, October 25, 2012.

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• I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

  Akshay Kumar

  Hurt, Film, Indian

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• Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fancy, Crystals, Emotion

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.252

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• It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Novel

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Healthy, Jam, Sentimental

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• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  Edmund Burke

  Important, Revolution, Opinion

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.119

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

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Communication, Sentimental

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• Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

  J. William Fulbright

  Children, Future, Noble

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• The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost."

  Frederic Farrar

  Peace, Philosophy, Cost

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• The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.

  James Madison

  Government, Law, People

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• No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

  Joseph Joubert

  Intelligence, Mediocre, Good Sense

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• Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Giving, World

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• If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists.

  Frank I. Cobb

  Office, Independence, Patriotism

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• I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fear, Heart, Atheism

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.177, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.

  Rajneesh

  Wall, Meditation, Finding Yourself

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• A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Science, Order, May

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.20, Jester House Publishing

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• So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Past, Color

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.88

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• It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Waiting, Custodians, Prejudice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

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• As an independent filmmaker, the biggest challenge is finding the money. Whenever you have interest in a film project you need to find investors who are real. I think most independent filmmakers would echo that sentiment.

  Harrison Smith

  Real, Independent, Thinking

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• A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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• All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Inspiration, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1299, Delphi Classics

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• If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Doe, Mixtures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.86, Penguin

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