Quotes with sympathies

  • The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Robert Hayden Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Buffalo Bill My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Oscar Wilde No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James A. Froude The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Willa Cather To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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