#sentiment

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

#act #any #comes #deny #easily

The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of his breast to us, seems to exercise a species of hospitality more delightful than any other. No man, who is in ordinary good temper, can fail of pleasing, if he has the courage to utter his real sentiments as he feels them, and because he feels them. ↗

— Adam Smith

#courage

Oz thinks I'm beautiful," she whispered to the stars. ↗

— James Patterson

#beauty

I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#philosophy #sentiment #life

Only little boys and old men sneer at love. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#love #passion #sentimental #age

Dream Song: The heavens Go with me. ↗

— Frances Densmore

#old-songs #sword-sentiments #truth #beauty

The most introspective of hearts tends to be the most sentimental. We cling to the smallest moments from our past because we fear that emotion will never come our way again. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#sentimental #introspection

Spesso la gente non ha le emozioni chiare, altro che le idee. ↗

— Diego De Silva

#feelings #idee #love #sentimenti #love

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#sentimental #london

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

— Martin Van Buren

#cherished #continue #good #mutually #russia