Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind that only pleases the sight but does not captivate the… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“My affections truly were not engaged. It is only my pride that is hurt, not my heart.” — Anna Elliott Copy Share Image
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Grant that, by purity of life, we may repair the past; that, by the fervor of our affections, we may return Thy… — Peter J. Arnoudt Copy Share Image
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of… — Gaby Copy Share Image
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Marry Shelly Copy Share Image
“As I turned all of my affections toward Him, quickly every pavilion became a picture of the refuge of His person. Every… — Eric Gimour Copy Share Image
Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
