Affection Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affection Every man Kind Looks Love Men Woods
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection — Jack Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
