Affection Quotes

• "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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• "There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• "The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot."
  By: William Hazlitt (1), Table Talk--On the Past and Future
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• "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."
  By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• "Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 183)
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• "Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth."
  By: John Ford
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• "How cling we to a thing our hearts have nursed."
  By: Catherine H. Waterman Esling
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• "Affection is the broadest basis of good in life."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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• "The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish."
  By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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• "No affections and a great brain,--these are the men to command the world."
  By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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• "How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds."
  By: Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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• "Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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• "There is so little to redeem the dry mass of follies and errors from which the materials of this life are composed that anything to love or to reverence becomes, as it were, the Sabbath for the mind."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "The affections are immortal! they are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
  By: Bible, Colossians (ch. III, v. 2)
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• "Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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