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• One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Emotional, Long

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Children, Men, Done

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.15, Penguin

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• It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Views, Brain

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Thinking, Connections

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.102

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• Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

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• When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Intellectual, Fancy

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.261, UPNE

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• Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

  George Santayana

  Real, Believe, Sadness

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• Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share.

  Walter Pater

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  Walter Pater (2005). “Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas”, p.381, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And through it all she offers me protection,
  a lot of love and affection
  whether I'm right or wrong.
  And down the waterfall
  where ever it may take me
  I know that life won't break me
  when I come to call, she won't forsake me
  I'm loving angels instead.

  Robbie Williams

  Inspiring, Angel, May

  "Song: "Angels"". 1997.

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• Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Hands, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.154, Hackett Publishing

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• Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sadness, Feelings, Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Set of Six”, p.103, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

  Pierre Charron

  Heart, House, May

  Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”

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• Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Fidelity, Given

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• If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Cat, Going Away, Noses

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• Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God.

  Richard Sibbes

  Father, Rain, Grace

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• Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.

  Kurt Lewin

  Teaching, Science, Ideas

  Kurt. Lewin, (2013). “A Dynamic Theory of Personality - Selected Papers”, p.231, Read Books Ltd

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• If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stress, Giving, Charm

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3056, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Men, Feelings

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• It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Fire, Faithful

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• It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Nice, Scare

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.441, Princeton University Press

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• I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

  Carolyn Wells

  Effort, Facts, Strive

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Believe, Humor, Men

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• I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Intelligent, Men, Missing

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• Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Simplicity, Purity

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• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Heart, Land

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.235, Penguin

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