Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections. — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my… — John Britton Copy Share Image
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can… — Joseph Butler 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… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. - Washington Irving — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My heart touches a mans warmth... Right before his affections for me freezes!” — Author Saidah Brown Copy Share Image
“I refuse to believe you've misinterpreted my affections. I am wholly in love with you. And it is permanent.” — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Friedrich kissed the top of her head. “Yes, before I fell in love with you,” he said, sounding quite sheepish. “After that… — K.M. Shea Copy Share Image
Your Beauty Blinded my eyes, I can't see know one except you... your Love felt my Heart, I won't have Love affections… — Junior Dè Rèál Testament Copy Share Image
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
“I will love you, I will honor you, I will give you my affections. I will walk with no other partner, and… — Annie Wald Copy Share Image
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them,… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
