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affections
«When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.»
Author: Miles Franklin
| Keywords:
affections, bog, bogged, bogs, delirious, fabric, Fair Play, inhuman, trustworthy, warmth
«To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature»
Author: Adam Smith
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
affections, benevolent, constitute, restrain, selfishness
«Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
affections, obstacle, taint, Taints, temporal, temporalities, temporality
«Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Christmas,
Family love,
Religious love
| Keywords:
affections, Christmas Day, encircle, encircled, encircles, encircling, enjoyments, grouped
«We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life / some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed / because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
affections, affliction, confess, contemplated, disappointed, exclusively, helplessness, laughed, passionate, Personal experience, piteous
«You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accuse, accuses, accusing, affections, blame, consistent, looking for, The Accused, wavered, wavering, wavers
«We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our ''natural'' attitude toward the ''other'' is one of either indifference or hostility.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
affections, commanded, forbidden, hostility, mates