38 Affections Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Alfred A. Montapert

Love Grateful People Pet Animals Live Difficult Reliable True Affections Up Predictable Full Loyal Standards Many Actions

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats

Truth Heart Nothing Imagination Am Affections Romantic Holiness Certain

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

Nature Human Nature Others Our Benevolent Ourselves Constitute Restrain Perfection Feel Exercise Affections Selfishness Human Little Much

If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this. Ellen G. White

God Strength You Soul Heart Mind Will Before Nothing Living Other Only He True Accept Does Lord Affections Gods Short Turned Require Requires Your Who Whole Away Serving

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. Charlotte Bronte

You World Value Nothing Like Know Well Affections Sisters Full

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

Friendship Animal Difficult Philosophical Cat Obtain Does Affections Place

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. Washington Irving

Life History Woman Life Is A Affections Whole

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot

Great Jokes Great Strain Affections Taste Difference Strain

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. John Paul Jones

Happiness Life Good Peace Heart Will My Life Sacrifice Softer Favorite Restore Only Could Scheme Sacrificed Prospects Also Cheerfulness Ready Am Affections Domestic Mankind Among

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 they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life Love Relationship Will Tree Restrained Sort Another Leaves Affections Die Roots Wholly Expressions Necessary

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. Alexander Hamilton

You Steal Taken Advantage Without Affections Sensibility Should Consent

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Daniel Boone

Man Soul Natural Our Objects Powerful Affections Curiosity Influence Interesting

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. David Hume

Reflection Understanding Eloquence Address Willing Entirely Highest Leaves Affections Itself Pitch Little Room Reason Captivating Desires

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. James Martineau

Grief Memory Sympathy Only Affections Widowed

In life, there are no perfect affections. James Merrill

Life Perfect Affections

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. John Dryden

Love Grace Will Goodness Virtue Hath True Thy Principal Always Continue Affections End Ends Whereas Which Founded

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections. Mary Baker Eddy

Home Earth Boundary Spot Dearest Affections Centre Should

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. Alexander Pope

Man Simplicity Manners Wit Gentle Affections Child Mild

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect. Algernon Sidney

Best Men Nothing Unknown Ought Divest Perfect Never Wisest Permanent Passions Affections Which Themselves Many Wholly Things

In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time. David Whyte

Time Heart People Minds Way Indeed Hidden Poetic Tradition Affections Hearts Same Same Time Asking Holy Organizations

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot

Great Jokes Humor Great Strain Affections Taste Different Strain

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