"There is nothing which so generally strikes the……" — William Blackstone

"There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."

— William Blackstone

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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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The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. — Washington Irving
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not… — William Gurnall
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the… — Thomas Jefferson
In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the… — Stonewall Jackson
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's… — Roberto Burle Marx
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly… — Thomas a Kempis
One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left… — Sigmund Freud
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus… — Charles Darwin
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded… — Margaret Fuller

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