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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Charles Seneca

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

Kathleen Turner

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Charles Seneca

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

John Galsworthy

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C J Jung

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Rebecca Confucius

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Graham Greene

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

James Russell Lowell

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Graham Greene

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

Abraham Lincoln

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Alphonse De Lamartine

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas Huxley

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Oscar Wilde

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

James Russell Lowell

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. -Edward Young.

Edward Young

If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -Loretta Girzartis.

Loretta Girzartis

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.. -Anthony Robbins.

Anthony Robbins

The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Edmund Burke

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