#sentiment

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. ↗

— James Madison

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These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. ↗

— James Otis

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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. ↗

— William Godwin

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

— Graham Greene

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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. ↗

— William James

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