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“Do anything rather than marry without affection.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“I may be poor at reading and writing, but when it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.” Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life” - 1903

“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” - 1839

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” - 1842

“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.” G. K. Chesterton, “What's Wrong with the World” - 1910

“But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some women may feel?” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter, but he never felt the law.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.” John Stuart Mill, “A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive” - 1843

“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.” John Stuart Mill, “A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive” - 1843

“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” John Stuart Mill, “The Subjection of Women” - 1869

“Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” - 1858

“She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.” Oscar Wilde, “Intentions” - 1891

“It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

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