Affections Quotes

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It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and… — David Hume
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. — Alfred Armand Montapert
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading… — Miguel de Unamuno
England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there. — Bob Hope
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to… — Algernon Sidney
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were… — Larry Kramer
Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Love is self-explanatory: the right person makes you feel well nigh immortal, vaccinating you with their affections. So long as you remain in their heart… — Jonathan Hull
A Universalist, your heart cannot but dilate, and your affections widen, until the divine expansion, like the ambient atmosphere, embraces every form, which is acted… — Judith Sargent Murray
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up… — Alfred Armand Montapert
All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first. — Matthew Henry
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second… — Thomas de Quincey
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. — Aristotle
One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. — Sigmund Freud
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. — Demosthenes
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of… — Thomas Sprat
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master… — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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