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Affection Quotes - Page 2

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3056, Delphi Classics

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.290, Harvard University Press

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

'National Airs' (1815) 'Oft in the Stilly Night'

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.522

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.34, Revell

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Philip Roth (2001). “The Dying Animal”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt