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“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.”

“The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.”

Feelings Pleasure Magic Produce Occasions Stimulus Eloquence Owing

Book:Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions

Source: Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions

“The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed”

Men Feelings Social Conditions Depends Lust Occasions Conventions Accustomed Frequency

Book:Marriage and Morals

Source: Marriage and Morals

“A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”

People Ifs Humans Said Feelings Expression Ill Occasions Sensible Pulpit Hunted Unselfishness Screwtape Letters Live For Others Ill Feelings

Author:C. S. Lewis

“In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.”

Ifs Art Reason Feelings Would Be Taste Speech Occasions Obliged Theoretical Deliberation Every Occasion

Author:William Hazlitt

“No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.”

People Ifs Littles Feelings Happens Command Occasions Prose Conceited

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.”

Feels Writing Said States Feelings Hands Particular Sorrow Inspired Occasions Fancy Pens Usual Oysters

Book:A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...

Source: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...

“Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.”

Ifs I Can Helping Feelings Fall Feet Occasions Feet On The Ground Rare Occasion

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti