The emotional side of life has always been a closed book to me, one I disdained to read.

By mysticism we understand the expression of religious emotion, as contrasted with efforts to attain righteousness by full obedience to the ethical doctrine of duties, and also in contrast to the hair-splitting of dogmatic speculation: mysticism strove to reach immediate emotional unity with the Godhead.

The most genuine feeling of comradeship sprang up between the two dissimilar natures, a feeling so strong and so warm that Sylvia, in addition to her other emotional complications, felt occasionally a faint pricking of jealousy at seeing her primacy with her father usurped.

It was the creation of a Parisian boulevard actress, known widely for her costumes, for the extraordinary manner in which she dressed her hair, and for the rapidity of her succeeding emotional entanglements.

The afternoon had been saturated with emotional excitement and the moment had come for its inevitable crystallization into fateful words.

It is difficult to connect this vaporous incorporeal "donna" of the poems with those brawny colossal adult females of the statues, unless we suppose that Michelangelo remained callous both to the physical attractions and the emotional distinction of woman as she actually is.

They have the intellectual vagueness, the emotional certainty, that belong to the motives of a symphony.

He was amazednot that she had recovered so completely from the emotional excitement that had racked her, but because she betrayed in no way a sign of griefof suspense or of anxiety.

His claim to backstairs influence having been challenged, he had resorted to the emotional appeal that is the simplest means of controlling any crowd of men anywhere.

A sound, large, "round-about" common sense, keen, eager, vigilant, sagacious, encompasses all the emotional elements of his thought.

It would really help if the average Goan was less gullible and didn't judge issues along emotional lines alone.

It taught me not to be emotional when dealing with a profession.

As a woman you inevitably must be emotional and make a doubtful issue of it.

But before I say more concerning Mr. Meredith, I will admit at once frankly and fearlessly, that I am not a competent critic, because emotionally I do not understand him, and all except an emotional understanding is worthless in art.

The publishers indeed consider that she might be called "Every Woman," so typical is she of her sex, and "so like to the emotional careers of so many English girls is her own."

I can certainly call the book admirably written, with restraint and an emotional sympathy that impressed me as the outcome probably of an intimate knowledge of the scenes and persons described.

The emotional life is made the essential life; and all its phases of manifestation in art, poetry and religion are regarded as of great importance.

George Eliot viewed the higher problems of life from this point of view, giving to the forms in which the emotional side of man's nature is expressed a supreme importance.

That her interpretation of the emotional elements of life is the true one, that she has discovered their source or their real ideal significance, may well be doubted; but there is every reason for believing that she realized their great value, and she certainly tried in an earnest spirit to make them helpful in the life of ideal beauty and truthfulness.

Accordingly, man's life is of little value apart from sentiment, and the emotional nature must always be satisfied.

At the same time that she made religion a development from feeling, she limited the moral law to emotional sanctions.

The mental life of man, according to George Eliot, is simply an expansion of the emotional life.

At first the mental life is unconscious, it is instinctive, simply the emotional response of man to the sequences of nature.

And since the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dream-land where nothing is but what is not, perhaps an emotional intellect may have absorbed into its passionate vision of possibilities some truth of what will bethe more comprehensive massive life feeding theory with new material, as the sensibility of the artist seizes combinations which science explains and justifies.

They saluted each other solemnly, and there were emotional greetings between friends and brothers who had not seen each other after weeks of fighting in different parts of the lines, in this city across the border.