Affection Quotes

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and… — Watchman Nee
If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to… — Charles Dickens
The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. — Washington Irving
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you… — Benjamin Haydon
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do… — Thomas Carlyle
It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection… — John Bunyan
If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long… — Mahatma Gandhi
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections. — William Gurnall
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. — Michel de Montaigne
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...… — Thomas Jefferson
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys… — Pliny the Elder
I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection. — Vince Lombardi
In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second… — Stonewall Jackson
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past… — Roberto Burle Marx
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made… — Thomas a Kempis
Hatreds are the cinders of affection. — Walter Raleigh
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when… — Nan Fairbrother
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. — Bertrand Russell
One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they… — Sigmund Freud

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