The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
Most people would rather give than get affection.
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Aristotle
BC 384-322 Greek Philosopher
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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Austen, Jane
1775-1817 British Novelist
It’s not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) –to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it’s the affection I find richer. It’s that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
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Bagnold, Enid
1889-1981 British Novelist Playwright
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [Colossians 3:2]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that
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Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
I love to hold people’s hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven’t experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
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Diana, Princess of Wales
1961-1997 Wife of Charles Prince of Wales
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
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.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
1804-1864 American Novelist Short Story Writer
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
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Hunt, Leigh
1784-1859 British Poet Essayist
A woman’s life is a history of the affections.
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Irving, Washington
1783-1859 American Author
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
Don’t be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
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Lubbock, Sir John
1834-1913 British Statesman Banker Naturalist
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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Maurois, Andre
1885-1967 French Writer
I never met a man I didn’t like.
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Rogers, Will
1879-1935 American Humorist Actor
If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper — and despise it.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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Smith, Logan Pearsall
1865-1946 Anglo-American Essayist Aphorist
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
1918 Russian Novelist