"Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom."
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"The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration."
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"The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection."
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"Love is the piety of the affections."
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"Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself."
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"The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends."
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"If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection."
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"Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal."
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"There is no power greater than true affection."
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"It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends."
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"Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought."
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"I'm seventy-six now. I'm at a stage in my life where I feel a lot of affection and regard for women, and I felt the need to make this clear in some way. I don't know how they'll feel when they read it, but I feel okay about it."
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"My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths."
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"If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold."
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"But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy."
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"O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them."
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"There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard."
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"Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections."
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"We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music."
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"It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them."
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