Affection Quotes
These are some of the best 'Affection' quotations and sayings.
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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How often a new affection makes a new man. The sordid becomes liberal; the cowering, heroic; the frivolous girl, the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love.
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If there is any thing that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is a pure human love.
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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 airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.
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Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lays in ambush and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade. The light inclinations of very young people are as dust compared to rocks.
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Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other,
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Our affections are our life. - We live by them; they supply our warmth.
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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.
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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
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Th' affiction iv th' American people is always aimed thrue an' is invaryable fatal.
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The affections, like conscience, are rather to be led than driven. - Those who many where they do not love, will be likely to love where they do not marry.
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The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
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There is in life no blessing like affection; it soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues, and bringeth down to earth its native heaven: life has nought else that may supply its place.
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There is so little to redeem the dry mass of follies and errors that make up so much of life, that anything to love or reverence becomes, as it were, a sabbath to the soul.
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They love him most for the enemies that he has made.
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We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
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What is so pleasant as these jets of affection which make a young world for me again? ... The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - all duties even.
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