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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or a

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. – John Sterling

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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. – John Sterling

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The heart is half a prophet. – Yiddish Proverb

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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Ere he returned, Madame descended and passed from the sparkling sunshine into the gloom of the portico, with a melancholy consciousness of the symbolic. For her spirit, too, had its poetic intuitions and insights… – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897

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Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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