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affections

«Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.»
«I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | About: Affection | Keywords: affections, holiness
«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
«It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.»
«Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing.»
«I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | Keywords: affections, holiness
«Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child»
«One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.»
«My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Patriotism | Keywords: affections
«Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.»

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