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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.
Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.
Guru Nanak Dev ji's life and teachings give a message of affection, compassion and brotherhood for the entire humanity.
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.
Try and spread a lot of love and affection around the world. The most important thing is not to 'con' the public. Be real.
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.
In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.
Turkish people live football. Football is a passion of theirs. They demonstrate it with love and affection for their team.
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.
Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
I will never forget the affection of the Inter fans who made me feel like one of them and who always supported and helped me.
I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.
During my film career, I have received love and affection from Indian cinegoers. I have received unconditional love from them.
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
My dad would do horrible things to me, but I was so desperate for his affection and his approval that I would keep coming back.
People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish.
As much as I really love the praise and affection I get when my work is appreciated, it doesn't translate to money in the bank.
Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.
The Neapolitans have a special affection for Argentines. They are similar to us as well as having Diego Maradona in their hearts.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.