“The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.” Has BeensSecretMankindLettersSickSentimentsClosetsPublishCabinetsDivulge Author:Alexander Pope
“The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.” SeemsLanguageMankindExpressionFlowerTasteUniversalMediumsSymbolsServingSentimentsDelicateFinestGrossFitting Author:George Stillman Hillard
“Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.” MenHumansCharacterTimeUnderstandingNaturalStudyMankindStrengthHuman NatureWeaknessGainsInsightPityVarietyGenerositySentimentsAdolescenceStrength And Weakness Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood
“The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.” SeemsLawReligionNaturalJusticePartyMankindIndependentSentiments Author:Voltaire
“Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.” MenKindStatesReligiousMankindIntellectAccidentsViolentPermanentAbandonSentimentsReligious FaithTrue NatureDistortionPiousUnbeliefAberration Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.” PeopleKnowsWantWellsHas BeensDoneAgeDesireIndividualCausesReligiousStepsOpinionMankindCryExpressionMembersFellowsMajorityCommandFeaturesSentimentsAssociationPersecutionDistrustEvery StepReligious Persecution Author:Susan B. Anthony
“But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.” MenWholeFeelingsCoursesMillionsMankindFoolColdHeroCreaturesPerceptionToolsFellowsBlindDuesNobleFeaturesExceptionSentimentsWarmthPermitFreakDespised Book:Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse Source: Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse