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«The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.»
«So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
administration, affections, beating, belonging, considers, desirable, exchange, heart failure, hopeless, imprudence, indulgence, indulgences, kindest, owner, regulated, the Master, toil
«The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
affections, American Revolution, commenced, commences, duties, effected, Hearts of, obligations, radical, Radical Change, religious war, revolution, sentiments, The American Revolution, the revolution, The War
«The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.»
Author: Lee Iacocca
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
affections, fallen, lightning, Lightning Strikes, strike
«There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes --seize it, don't miss it.»
Author: Max Lucado
| Keywords:
affections, comes, extravagant, gestures, miss, pour, pour out, riskiest, risky, seize, seize on, seizing, The Time, when the time comes
«The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties even»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
affections, duties, ennui, indulge, metamorphoses, tragedies, vanish, winter
«Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds will be thy life»
«The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Affection,
Happiness,
Heart
| Keywords:
affections, esteemed, pouring, pour forth
«The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils, The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted: - Mark the m»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affections, Concord, dull, Erebus, m, mark, motions, moved, Ms., Ms, sounds, spoils, stratagem, stratagems, The M, trusted