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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; b

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. – Joseph Collins

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The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. – Joseph Collins

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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. – Roger Ebert

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists–talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

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Melancholic madness strapped to your chest and you have no way of releasing the fear. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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