Sentimentalities Quotes

The accent of conviction is made up of a mixture of faith, power, and love combined, forming a characteristic which is at once simple, pious, and grand, redolent of inspiration and sanctity. Here are no fabulous joys and woes; no hollow, fantastic sentimentalities; no wire-drawn refinings, either in thought or feeling; the passion that is traced before us has glowed in a living heart; the opinion he utters has risen in his own understanding, and'been a light to his own steps.

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The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.

— Edward G. Parker, The Golden Age of American Oratory, Chapter I.

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