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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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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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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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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Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. – Marquis De Sade

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Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong. – Sir Edwin Arnold

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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. – Randolph Churchill

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If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. – The Crow, written by James O’Barr, David J. Schow, and John Shirley, 1994

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