Affections Quotes
273 quotes by 201 authors
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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
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
— Charlotte Bronte
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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
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The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.
— Washington Irving
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
— Margaret Fuller
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There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
— Washington Irving
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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
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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
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You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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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
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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
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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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