Affections Quotes

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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the… — Thomas Aquinas
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. — Thomas Aquinas
A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination. — Napoleon Bonaparte
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do… — Napoleon Bonaparte
To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to… — John Muir
Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity. — Mark Hopkins
Thereâ€™s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think itâ€™s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesnâ€™t return your affections might be… — Steve Toltz
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal… — Amos Bronson Alcott
A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first… — Paul Valery
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon… — William Hazlitt
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Theophile Gautier
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded… — John Dryden
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections. — Mary Baker Eddy
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. — George Eliot
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections. — Gloria Estefan
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. — Alexander Hamilton
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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