"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world."
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"Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow."
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"Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs."
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"What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me."
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"Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection."
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"Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety."
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"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."
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"Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward."
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"Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent."
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"The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men."
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"O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body."
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"Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you."
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"Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life."
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"There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever."
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"People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable."
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"God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect."
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"Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection."
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"There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection."
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"Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail."
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"Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot."
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