John Sterling's Quote - Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or a

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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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He stands in history as the completer of the globe. – John Sterling

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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. – John Sterling

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. – G. K. Chesterton

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Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. – Sonya Hartnett

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…that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment… – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. – Charles Dickens

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