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Sensibility: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.— BURNS — Sweet Sensibility.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone than by unexpected words.— GEORGE ELIOT — Adam Bede. Ch. XXVII.

Nor peace, nor ease the heart can know Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too.— MRS. GREVILLE — A Prayer for

Indifference. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.— MOORE — O Think Not My Spirits.

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! S.— MOORE — Loves of the Angels. First Angel's Story. L. 33.

Prompt sense of equity! to thee belongs The swift redress of unexamined wrongs! Eager to serve, the cause perhaps untried, But always apt to choose the suffering side!— HANNAH MORE — Sensibility. L. 243.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of And half our misery from our foibles springs; is the Father. Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; Oh, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.— HANNAH MORE — Sensibility.

And the touch'd needle trembles to the pole.— POPE — Temple of Fame. L. 431.