Affections Quotes

273 quotes by 201 authors

My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and… — Richard Baxter
...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood… — Edward Hirsch
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. — John Angell James
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
I come, O Lord, unto Thy sanctuary to see the life and food of my soul. As I hope in Thee, O Lord, inspire me… — Clare of Assisi
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as… — Pope John XXIII
What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of… — Hannah Whitall Smith
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people… — Thomas Huxley
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. — James Martineau
The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be… — George Washington
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the… — Joseph Story
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections,… — Noah Webster
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman's life is a history of the affections. — Washington Irving

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