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Irving Babbitt

"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."

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Donna Grant

"Let us hug heart to heart in love!"

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"May you have a joyful and grateful spirit."

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"May your turn your pain into prayer."

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"Of all the gifts, love is the greatest gift."

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"My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to."

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"Live each day with great love, hope and faith."

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"Suffering is the sorrow of joy."

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"Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation."

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"Music heals miserable heart."

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"Joyful living is a healthy life."

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Irving Babbitt
"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."

Emotional

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Irving Babbitt
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."

Man

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Irving Babbitt
"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."

Society

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Irving Babbitt
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."

Power

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Irving Babbitt
"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."

Being

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Irving Babbitt
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."

Happiness

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Irving Babbitt
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."

Man

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Irving Babbitt
"Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."

Faith

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Irving Babbitt
"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."

Science

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Irving Babbitt
"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."

Leadership

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