"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."
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"Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God."
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"Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it."
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"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."
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"Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them."
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"Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal."
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"It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends."
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"The more merit, the less affection."
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"Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life."
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"Touch is the alpha and omega of affection."
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"For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel."
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"The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people."
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"I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either."
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"Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this."
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"So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us."
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"Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them."
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"There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost."
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"It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination."
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""Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection."
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"All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit."
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