Affection Quotes - Page 32

• O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Death, Growth

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2302, Delphi Classics

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• Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Gratitude, Strong

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist; Or, the Parish Boy's Progress”, p.364

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• Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

  Ouida

  Sweet, Passion, Race

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

  William Ralph Inge

  Self, Intellect, Consecration

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• It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Future, Heaven, Might

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

  Paul Valery

  Mean, Law, Laws Of Nature

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• Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Jealousy, Sweet, Pride

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.60

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• There is nothing but death
  Our affections can sever,
  And till life's latest breath
  Love shall bind us for ever.

  James Gates Percival

  Constancy, Breaths

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.133

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• Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Giving, Soul, Devotion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “The Poetical Works of Miss Landon: Complete”, p.37

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• I would give worlds, could I believe
  One-half that is profess'd me;
  Affection! could I think it Thee,
  When Flattery has caress'd me.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1829). “The Venetian bracelet: the lost pleiad ; a history of the lyre, and other poems”, p.286

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• And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Fate, Winning

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1835). “The Miscellaneous Poetical Works”, p.173

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• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Eye, House

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• The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Eye, May

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• It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

  Joseph Addison

  Mind, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Spectator, no. 90-505”, p.611

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• There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

  Victor Hugo

  Passionate, Rapture, Lasting

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• Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection!
  Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
  Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike,
  Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Strong, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.112

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• The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

  Samuel Johnson

  Enemy, Relief, Tendencies

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.409

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• Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.

  Helen Keller

  Faith, Despair, No Fear

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• The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

  William Shenstone

  Mean, People, Littles

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• Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

  John Dryden

  Grace, Goodness, Vice And Virtue

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• The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.

  William Cowper

  Bible, Beautiful, Heart

  William Cowper (1862). “Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]”, p.54

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• Skins may differ, but affection
  Dwells in white and black the same.

  William Cowper

  White, Black, Skins

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1850). “The works of Cowper and Thomson including many letters and poems never before published in this country: With a new memoir of the life of Thomson”, p.122

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• Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

  Robert Southey

  Roots, Choices, Homeless

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• As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.

  Henry Fielding

  Anger, Recovery, Government

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.450

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