Affection Quotes

• "Such affection and unbroken faith as temper life's worst bitterness."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• "Affection is a coal that must be cooled; Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire."
  By: William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (l. 387)
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• "The poor wren, the most diminutive of birds, will fight, her young ones in her nest, against the owl."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "I have givens suck, and know how tender it is to love the babe that milks me."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Generous as brave, Affection, kindness, and the sweet offices Of love and duty, were to him as needful As his daily bread."
  By: Samuel Rogers
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• "Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never?"
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "How sacred, how beautiful, is the feeling of affection in pure and guileless bosoms! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions of those whom it was sent to bless and to preserve."
  By: Charles Mordaunt, Lord Peterborough
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• "Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness."
  By: Jules Michelet
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• "Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted. If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, still fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline (pt. II, st. 1)
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• "If the deepest and best affections which God has given us sometimes brood over the heart like doves of peace,--they sometimes suck out our life-blood like vampires."
  By: Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson
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• "There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection."
  By: Washington Irving
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• "Who hath not saved some trifling thing More prized than jewels rare, A faded flower, a broken ring, A tress of golden hair."
  By: Ellen C. Howarth ("Clementine"), 'Tis but a Little Faded Flower
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• "Who have riot saved some trifling thing More prized than jewels rare, A faded flower, a broken ring, A tress of golden hair."
  By: Ellen C. Howarth ("Clementine")
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