#affections

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#love

Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#worship #religion

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #desire #every #every man #external

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

#easily #i #i can #swayed #unfaithful

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ↗

— George Eliot

#difference #great #great strain #jokes #strain

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#animal #cat #difficult #does #friendship

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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