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8 Quotes for 'Sensibility' in the Database.
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Sensibility Quotes
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Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to
my Father: but go to by brethren, and say unto them, I ascend
unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. XX, v. 17)
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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of wo.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Sweet Sensibility
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Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by
unexpected words.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Adam Bede (ch. XXVII)
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It seem'd as if each thought and look
And motion were that minute chain'd
Fast to the spot such root she took,
And--like a sunflower by a brook,
With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Loves of the Angels--First Angel's Story (l. 33)
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: O Think Not My Spirits
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To touch the quick.
Author: Sophocles
Source: Ajax (786)
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Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Source: Sermon
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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.
Author: Horace Walpole
Source: see Cunningham's "Walpole"
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