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Affection Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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…
- Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of…
- The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
- The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties…
- The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
- Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
- The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual…
- We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human…
- Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why…
- And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never…
- The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
- The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.
- So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth?…
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to…
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and…
- The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties…
More Affection Quotes
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. — Richard Bach
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond… — Lord Acton
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. — Jane Addams
- I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not… — Sarah Bernhardt
- I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love. — George Best
- I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people. — Bhumibol Adulyadej