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Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.

A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

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

A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

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.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.

Barça has always given me great affection, and even to this day. I only have words of gratitude for them

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.

But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.