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The really sensitive are too sensitive to ever talk about it. - Madame de Chateauneuf Rieiux (Renee de Rieux)(called "La Belle") Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before. - Samuel Rogers Sensibility is nature's celestial spring. - Sir Walter Scott If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Men have marble, women waxen, minds. - William Shakespeare To touch the quick. - Sophocles, Ajax (786) Feeling loves a subdued light. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Too much sensibility creates unhappiness, too much insensibility creates crime. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. - Jeremy Taylor, Sermon I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. - Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, see Cunningham's "Walpole" Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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