Best modern & sentiments Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.”

Language Force Modern Ancient Excellent Sentiments Reproduction Warrants Classification Modern Languages

Book:Edge-tools of speech

Source: Edge-tools of speech

“When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education”

Has Beens Ideas Mother Christianity Modern Motive Faculty Sentiments New Ideas Modern Education

Book:Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

Source: Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

“I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.”

Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.”

World States Sound Modern Frustration Sentiments Vocabulary Modern World

Author:David Brooks

“Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.”

Mind Doe House Modern Wall Foundation Prison Spots Sentiments Association Rooted Desirable Anecdotes Changing Your Mind Fetters

Author:Virginia Woolf

“At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.”

Years Kind Long Form Novel Modern Possibility Couple Hundred Favors All Kinds Prose Sentiments Abandoned Emergence Modern Novel

Author:Teju Cole

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