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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

~Adam Smith

Topics: Affections Benevolent Constitute Exercise Feel Human Human Nature Little Much Nature Others Our Ourselves Perfection Restrain Selfishness

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You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

~Alexander Hamilton

Topics: Advantage Affections Consent Sensibility Should Steal Taken Without You

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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

~Alexander Pope

Topics: Affections Child Gentle Man Manners Mild Simplicity Wit

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Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

~Alfred A. Montapert

Topics: Actions Affections Animals Difficult Full Grateful Live Love Loyal Many People Predictable Reliable Standards True Up

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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

~Algernon Sidney

Topics: Affections Best Many Men Never Nothing Ought Passions Perfect Permanent Themselves Things Unknown Which Wholly Wisest

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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: About Affections Answer Armies Birth Death Depths Domestic Empires Fall Great Joys Kings Life Marching Mistake Most Move Rise Them Tragedies

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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

~Archibald Alexander

Topics: Accountable Affections Anything Anything Else Consists Else Men Morality More Motives Primarily Than

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I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they're the guys that are always going to be there. It's just you being a friend to me and I'm being a friend to you.

~Brody Jenner

Topics: Affections Always Been Being Comfortable Day End End Of The Day Friend Friends Going Guy Guys Important Just Me Person Sexuality Showing Totally Very You Your

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For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: About Affections Always Been Being Correct Fan Fans Feel Film Film And Television How Interesting Just Me Particular Perform Television Ways You Your

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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

~Charles Darwin

Topics: Affections Heart Man Mere Ought Scientific Stone Wishes

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