Affection Quotes

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Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking,… — Andrew Carnegie
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them… — William Hazlitt
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. — Margaret Fuller
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his. — Ambrose Bierce
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection… — George Santayana
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they… — Walter Pater
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good. — Stanley Kubrick
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,… — Joseph Conrad
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart — Washington Irving
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. — Theophile Gautier
A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost. — Charlotte Gray
Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! — Theophile Gautier
All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate… — Charles Dudley Warner
... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of… — Richard Sibbes
Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang KÃ¶hler. I need not emphasize my debts to these… — Kurt Lewin

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