EMOTIOn quotes
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow, whether raised at a puppet-show, a funeral, or a battle, is your grandest of levelers.—The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.
Emotion which does not lepd to and flow out in right action is not only useless, but it weakens character, and becomes an excuse for neglect of effort.
Emotion has no value in the Christian system save as it is connected with right conduct.—It is the bud, not the flower, and is of no value until it expands into the flower.—Every religious sentiment, every act of devotion which does not produce a corresponding elevation of life, is worse than useless; it is absolutely pernicious, because it ministers to self-deception, and tends to lower the tone of personal morals.
All loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly in the tempestuous atmosphere of life.
The taste for emotion may become a dangerous taste; we should be very cautious how we attempt to squeeze out of human life more ecstasy and paroxysm than it can well afford.
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
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