#affection

Most people would rather give than get affection. ↗

— Aristotle

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗

— George Eliot

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In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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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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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. ↗

— Nan Fairbrother

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We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. ↗

— Lillian Gordy Carter

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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. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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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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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved. ↗

— Galeazzo Ciano

#between #both #farewell #hitler #men