#affection

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#because #dead #dying #faint #grows

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#does #even #evoke #public #same

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. ↗

— Jane Addams

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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. ↗

— William Godwin

#beings #between #children #great #human

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. ↗

— William Lilly

#after #comfortably #dead #great #having

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#never #talk #wasted

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. ↗

— St. Jerome

#love #love is #price #purchased

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ↗

— Washington Irving

#history #life #life is a #whole #woman

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#aid #certain #despise #elevation #helpful