Quotes with sensibility

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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Remy de Gourmont We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • John Ruskin What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Robert Stone What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
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  • Alexander Hamilton You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Simone Weil When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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