Quote by Irving Babbitt
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and se

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. – Irving Babbitt

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. – Irving Babbitt

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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James

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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me Ive reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine. – Kate Smith

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – William Shakespeare

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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. – Thomas More

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