Affection Quotes

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COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls: and didst bless… — Lancelot Andrewes
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,… — David Hume
Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection. — Huston Smith
PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost. — Ambrose Bierce
Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire. — William Shakespeare
Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or… — Francis Quarles
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which… — Jean Paul
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness. — Jules Michelet
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection. — Philip Sidney
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. — William Makepeace Thackeray
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. — Benjamin Disraeli
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to… — William Hazlitt
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. — Aristotle
There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. — Washington Irving
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study… — Helen Keller
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with… — Henry David Thoreau
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place… — Alex Garland

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