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The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.

The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

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.

The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

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.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

The more merit, the less affection.

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.

The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is.., it never fades away

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

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.

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.

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

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

There is no power greater than true affection.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

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.

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.

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

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.