Affections Quotes

273 quotes by 201 authors

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the… — Amelia Barr
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte
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
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
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
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
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
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
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. — Margaret Fuller
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart — Washington Irving
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
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. — Archibald Alexander
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and… — Jacques Barzun
In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption… — John Owen
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A… — Alexander Hamilton
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human… — William Bartram

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