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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

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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. – Irving Babbitt

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Faith
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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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Society
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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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Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot

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The only cure for grief is action. – George Henry Lewes

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Im not looking for sympathy at all. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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