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• As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

  Nick Clooney

  Animal, May, Share

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• We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.

  Mike Bickle

  Passion, Commitment, Understanding

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• What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?

  Ellen G. White

  Sweet, Eye, Heart

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

  Aristotle

  Memories, Animal, Past

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

  John Eudes

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

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• The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror of my thoughts, the consoler of my sorrows, the guide of my soul through this gloomy labyrinth of time, the telescope went from heaven to reveal to the eye of man the amazing glories of the far distant world.

  William Jones

  Bible, Christian, Eye

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• Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

  George Eliot

  Children, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, People, Thousand

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

  George Gillespie

  Ignorance, Men, Errors

  George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury”

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• You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to unleash your affection, to exhault something or someone above all else. So don't waste your worship on some little god, squandering your birthright on idols made only with human imagination. Guard your worship. And carefully evaluate all potential takers.

  Louie Giglio

  Opportunity, Idols, Worship You

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• Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

  Daniel Keyes

  Damn, Intelligence And Education, Humans

  Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• In China there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His deep affection for dragons was brought to the attention of the dragon god, and onde day a real dragon appeared before his window. It is said that he died of fright. He was probably a man who always spoke big words but acted differently when facing the real thing.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Real, Men

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

  B. F. Skinner

  Teacher, Winning, Parent

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• A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Father, Parent

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.623, Delphi Classics

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• We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Office, Virtue

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.220, Delphi Classics

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• If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Father, Home

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.132, University of Virginia Press

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• Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Winning, Drunk

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• To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Guilt

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.47

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• The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

  William McFee

  Marriage, Wife, Comfort

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

  Robertson Davies

  Childhood, Slavery, May

  Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA

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• Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

  Robertson Davies

  Women, Thinking, Enough

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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

  Mary Astell

  Self, Soul, Creator

  Mary Astell (1717). “The Christian Religion, as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church of England”, p.317

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• As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

  Wendell Berry

  Technology, People, Political

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.58, Counterpoint Press

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• Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

  Karl Abraham

  Patient, Violent, Investigation

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.62, Karnac Books

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• It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

  David Hume

  Book, Eye, Air

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.697, Delphi Classics

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