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    So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

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    Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

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    That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.

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    Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

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    The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps.

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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.

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    The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

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    The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

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    THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.

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    The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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    The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.

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    The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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    The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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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.

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    The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.

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    The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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

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    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

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

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    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.

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

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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.

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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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    The more merit, the less affection.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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    There is no power greater than true affection.

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