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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Honore de Balzac

Child Fruit Image Two

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

Revolution Important Manners Moral

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

Beautiful Soul Poetry Grace

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

Maria Montessori

Great Ideas Never Always

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

Good Bad Novels Makes

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Good Character Opportunity Better

Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

People Book Moral Being

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Confidence Union Religious Begets

Because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the causes of the future mutation of mankind; especially the most urgent ones, and the ones I perceived, and in a manner that would not upset their fragile sentiments.

Future Dark Way Upset

Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Character Great City Opinion

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Memories Imagination Smell More

In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

Winter Art Stars Moon

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Thought Desire Company Class

I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.

History Teachers Years Over

All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.

Walter Cronkite

Life Politics My Life Never

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Life Poetry True Never

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Me Respect Child Two

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

Life Time Thoughts You

Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

Day Religion Gender Law

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

John C. Calhoun

Man Great Evil Party

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

Cesare Beccaria

Education Myself Soul Humanity

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Beautiful Romantic World Action Than

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Beautiful Man World Action

Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.

Martin Van Buren

Good Will Russia Continue

I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Speak Know Abuse Only

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.

Life Family Patriotism Uncle

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