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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Novelist
Love
Men
Battle
Brave
Bravery
Contests
Fighting
Life Love Men
Affections
Brave Men
Daily
Physical
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There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
Max Lucado
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Author
Relationship
Extravagant
Gestures
Love You
Missing
Valentines Day
Love Time Your
Love Time Relationship
Affections
Miss
Pour
Risky
Seize
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In life, there are no perfect affections.
James Merrill
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Poet
Life
Inspire
Perfect
Affections
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
James Martineau
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Philosopher
Sympathy
Grief
Memories
Widowed
Affections
Memory
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving
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Author
History
Affection
Life Is
Whole
Affections
Woman
Life Is A
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Philosopher
Love
Flux
Perpetual
Philosophical
Romance
Affections
Bodies
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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
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Novelist
Humor
Strain
Taste
Affections
Great Strain
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My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
Dusty Springfield
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Singer
Affection
I Can
Unfaithful
Affections
Easily
Swayed
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
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Novelist
Funny
Women
Humor
Differences
Strain
Taste
Affections
Difference
Great Strain
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Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.
Gloria Estefan
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Singer-Songwriter
Affection
Expressive
Latin
Parent
Affections
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Alexander Pope
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Poet
Men
Children
Gentle
Manners
Simplicity
Wit
Child
Affections
Mild
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Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
John Sterling
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Announcer
Affection
Tyrants
World
Affections
Lords
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It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
Maria Mitchell
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Astronomer
Sad
Affection
Sacrifice
Ties
Affections
Sacrificing
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin
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Naturalist
Men
Science
Heart
Mere
Ought
Affections
Man
Scientific
Stone
Wishes
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The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
Mary Astell
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Writer
Affection
Creator
Self
Soul
Affections
Sets
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Lee Iacocca
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Businessman
Affection
Economy
Fallen
Lightning
Affections
Cannot
Till
Strike
Tell
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats
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Poet
Inspirational
Romantic
Imagination
Truth
Certain
Heart
Holiness
Lying
Nothing
Affections
Am
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte
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Novelist
Sister
Affection
Wells
World
Affections
Sisters
Full
Value
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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander Hamilton
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Founding Father Of The United States
Advantage
Affection
Consent
Sensibility
Stealing
Taken
Affections
Steal
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Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.
Mary Baker Eddy
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Author
Home
Affection
Centre
Earth
Affections
Boundary
Dearest
Spot
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone
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Author
Men
Curiosity
Influence
Interesting
Natural
Objects
Powerful
Soul
Affections
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Author
Love
Affection
Amusement
Friendly
Malice
Affections
Touch
Turning
Slight
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The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
Maria Montessori
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Physician
Faithful
Persistent
Convictions
Affections
Word
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Victor Hugo
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Poet
Love
Father's Day
Brother
Father
Heart
Son
Stars
Affections
Friend
Lover
Room
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That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
Tom Rachman
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Novelist
Paradox
Romance
Affections
Held
News Business
Noticed
Stirred
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There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.
Maren Morris
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Aesthetic
Winning
Affections
Beyond
Desires
Sexual
Pressures
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It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Theophile Gautier
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Poet
Friendship
Inspirational
Motivational
Animal
Cat
Difficult
Philosophical
Affections
Place
Obtain
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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Archibald Alexander
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Men
Accountability
Morality
Accountable
Affections
Anything Else
Consists
Motives
Primarily
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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
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Men
Errors
Ignorance
Natural
Understanding
Affections
Error
Man Lives
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In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.
Kara Swisher
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Columnist
Apollo
Greek
Greek Mythology
Mythology
Prophecy
Rejection
Affections
Due
Warnings
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The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
William Bartram
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Botanist
Active
Affection
Ardent
Attachment
Faithful
Parental
Sensibility
Nature Human Human Nature
Affections
Observed
Seem
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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
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Philosopher
Men
Desire
Every Man
Objects
Passion
Variety
Affections
Appetites
External
Hath
Likewise
Passions
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
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Philosopher
Benevolent
Exercise
Human Nature
Selfishness
Affections
Constitute
Restrain
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Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert
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Pet
Difficult
Grateful
Loyal
Predictable
Standards
Love People Difficult
Actions
Affections
Animals
True
Full
Reliable
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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
Matthew Simpson
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Biographer
Age
Heart
Human Form
Ideas
Passing
Affections
Gather
Hearts
Principle
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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
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Philosopher
Affection
Enjoyment
Objects
Passion
Satisfaction
Affections
Appetites
Consists
Passions
Several
Suited
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All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
Charles Inglis
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Bishop
Amiable
Principles
Virtuous
Affections
Exerted
Laid
Malevolent
Mild
Passions
Suppressed
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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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Playwright
Men
Abraham
Gay
Names
Starters
Affections
Attractions
George
Lincoln
Primary
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden
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Poet
Love
True Love
Goodness
Grace
Literature
Principal
Virtue
Affections
Founded
Hath
Thy
Whereas
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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Algernon Sidney
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English Politician
Men
Ought
Passion
Perfect
Permanent
Wisest
Unknown
Affections
Divest
Passions
Wholly
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Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
Joseph Butler
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Philosopher
Degrees
May
Passion
Affections
Bound
Easily
Degree
Exceeded
Hath
Measure
Passions
Possibly
Whereas
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Novelist
Love
Relationship
Expression
Roots
Tree
Life Love Relationship
Affections
Expressions
Leaves
Necessary
Restrained
Wholly
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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
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Philosopher
Mean
Principles
Sake
Self
Self Love
Affections
External
External Things
Principle
Seeks
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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
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Author
Men
Country
Prussia
Rapture
Love Man Feel
Affections
Dearest
Describe
Loves
How Much
Poets
Whilst
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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
David Hume
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Philosopher
Captivating
Desire
Eloquence
Reason
Reflection
Understanding
Willing
Address
Affections
Itself
Pitch
Desires
Entirely
Leaves
Room
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In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.
David Whyte
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Poet
Holy
Poetic
Tradition
Affections
Time Heart People
Organizations
Hearts
Hidden
Indeed
Minds
Same Time
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Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
John Sergeant Wise
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Author
Humanity
Moved
Affections
Angels
North
Philanthropists
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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
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Birth
Residence
Sixteen
Unknown
Life My Life More
Affections
Associate
Nearly
Strangers
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For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.
Carrie Brownstein
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Musician
Fans
Film And Television
Interesting
Always Your Me
Affections
Perform
Correct
Me Your Always
Me Fans Feel
Manifesting
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr
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Novelist
Kings
Birth
Empires
Mistake
Moving
Affections
Life Death Great
Rise
Armies
Depths
Domestic
Joys
Marching
Tragedies
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