38 Affections Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. George Gillespie

Man Ignorance Natural Will Understanding Some Without Affections Error Man Lives Which Natural Man Lives

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? James Fenimore Cooper

Life Truth Religion Man Sometimes Wish Imagination AIDS Philosopher Inseparable Purity Poetry Divest Higher Had He Abstract Conceive Catholic Principles Educated Been Affections Order Much Really Unite Necessarily

The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers. John Britton

Life My Life Feelings Strangers Birth Unknown More Had Part Became Years Affections Sixteen After Place Residence Nearly Early Associate

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. Joseph Butler

Happiness Good Rest Seeks Only Never Particular Call Principle Self-Love Sake Affections Anything Themselves Means Thing Things External External Things

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

Happiness Man Own Every Hath Objects General Variety Particular Likewise Passions His Affections Appetites Every Man Desire External

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. Joseph Butler

Happiness Nature Suited Our Several Those Consists Objects Only Particular Passions Affections Which Satisfaction Appetites Enjoyment

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. Karl Philipp Moritz

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men. Larry Kramer

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