The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us. Votes: 3
Rene Descartesthose Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ... Votes: 3
Eliza HaywoodThe affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. Votes: 1
Lee IacoccaA scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. Votes: 1
Charles DarwinI am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. Votes: 1
John KeatsIt is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. Votes: 1
Maria MitchellYou know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. Votes: 1
Charlotte BronteOur domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliTrue happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. Votes: 0
Mary WollstonecraftThe affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonMy affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonWhen the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. Votes: 0
Laurence SterneOur affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. Votes: 0
William Ellery ChanningOf all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. Votes: 0
John SterlingAs the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. Votes: 0
Anna Brownell JamesonChrist has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention. Votes: 0
Leonard RavenhillOf all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. Votes: 0
Elisabeth ElliotThe clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. Votes: 0
Laurence Sterneall brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for. Votes: 0
Nathaniel HawthorneWe give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeScience is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. Votes: 0
Lawrence DurrellNothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. Votes: 0
DemosthenesTime, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. Votes: 0
Fernando PessoaI cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged. Votes: 0
George EliotPurity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections. Votes: 0
F.B. MeyerDespite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try. Votes: 0
Kiera CassThe Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. Votes: 0
Mary AstellOf all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. Votes: 0
Richard SteeleLust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. Votes: 0
Francis QuarlesHope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life... Votes: 0
Francis BaconWoman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. Votes: 0
Florence NightingaleAfflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above. Votes: 0
John Angell JamesLove and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual. Votes: 0
Francis BaconA man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul. Votes: 0
Richard SibbesSuch is my curse, Branwyn O'Tyre. Every woman I touch is forced to lavish her affections upon me. Votes: 0
Jo GraffordI am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. Votes: 0
John KeatsIt is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonA worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work. Votes: 0
Dwight L. MoodyThe great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts. Votes: 0
John Piper