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• Most people would rather give than get affection.

  Aristotle

  People, Giving, Moral Excellence

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

  Nan Fairbrother

  Love, Inspirational, Classroom

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

  Aristotle

  Inspiration, Two, Inspire

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3228, Modern Library

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• The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Years, Six

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.59, 1st World Publishing

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• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Love, Inspirational, Angel

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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• Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Marriage, Women

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• We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Friendship, Memories

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Disappointment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Emotional, Giving, Feelings

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Slave, Worthy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Weight, Better Days

  William Hazlitt (1857). “Table-talk: Original Essays on Men and Manners”, p.7

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• There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

  Washington Irving

  Sorrow, Moments, Caress

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.295, e-artnow

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• Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them- we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.

  Brené Brown

  Betrayal, Love Is, Two

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.93, Penguin

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• Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Men, Thinking, Praise

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• The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

  Princess Diana

  Positive, Kindness, Journey

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• We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Solicitude, Occasions

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• Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

  Agnes Smedley

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

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• The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Night, Sky, Growth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

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• Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

  Walter Scott

  Differences, Long, Storm

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• The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Youth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Children, Ignorance, Horizon

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2510, Delphi Classics

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• Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.

  Dalai Lama

  Brother, Heart, Rich Or Poor

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• A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

  Charles Darwin

  Heart, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin, R. C. Stauffer (1987). “Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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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

  Romantic, Sex, Exercise

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.34, Elsevier

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• The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Country, Men, Order

  Edward R. Murrow's Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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