#affections

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#angels #humanity #interest #just #more

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#affections #consent #into #sensibility #should

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #caresses #die #expressions #leaves

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#brother #father #friend #heart #heaven

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ↗

— David Hume

#captivating #desires #eloquence #entirely #hearers

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#cannot #fallen #lightning #like #strike

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#amiable #dark #exerted #laid #malevolent

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. ↗

— Mary Astell

#any #creator #debases #her #self

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

#affections #ardent #attachment #faithful #filial

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

#easily #i #i can #swayed #unfaithful