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Quote by Goldwin Smith
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. – Goldwin Smith

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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. – Goldwin Smith

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architecture
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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. – Goldwin Smith

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architecture
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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. – Goldwin Smith

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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Toms Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. – Carl Clinton Van Doren

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Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. – Charles Henry Parkhurst

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I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. Im better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that dont. – Alton Brown

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You dont go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. – Nigella Lawson

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