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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and se

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

Other quotes by Irving Babbitt

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. – Irving Babbitt

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Faith
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Irving Babbitt
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

Category:
Happiness
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Irving Babbitt
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Sympathy
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I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. – A. N. Wilson

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Sympathy

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. – George MacDonald

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Sympathy

One often calms ones grief by recounting it. – Pierre Corneille

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Sympathy

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. – Ben Elton

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Sympathy

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Ive had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success. – Michael Landon

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What we call Mans power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. – C. S. Lewis

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