Affections Quotes
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Affection Quotes
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Lee Iacocca
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life`s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ
Charles Dickens
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
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There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Alex Liu
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
Allan Ross
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THE parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
Andrew McCormick
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Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Allan Donald
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My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
Dusty Springfield
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It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
Alyssa Biondo
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It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Andrew Booth
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In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your ...
Andy Spears
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In life, there are no perfect affections.
Alfred Steiglitz
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Allan Ross
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Happiness consists in the gratification of certain affections, appetites, passions, with objects which are by nature adapted to them.
Allan Ross
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
Alfred Sheinwold
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Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
Allan Ross
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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
Allan Ross
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone
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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 to.
Aitan Goelman
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart`s affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
Adam Brahosky
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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 on true virtue, will always continue.
Adam Bednarik
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Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Adrienne Camfield
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Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
Abdul Salam
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A woman`s whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving
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