Affections

Examples

• Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• No, indeed,' replied his mother; 'you have, or I mistake, too strong a hold on her affections already. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The State is all-sufficing for the wants of man, and, like the idea of the Church in later ages, absorbs all other desires and affections. Plato. The Republic.
• His affections are, I believe, at this moment, divided between a Mrs. Bang, a Mrs. Patten and a Mrs. Pancrass, all ladies of Covent Garden notoriety. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I mean, that human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There must be no trifling with HER affections, poor dear. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Who are you, that you are to play with two young people's affections and break their hearts at your will? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I began to think that Penelope might be right about the state of her young lady's affections, after all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My affections are wounded; it is impossible to heal them:--cease then the vain endeavour, if indeed that way your endeavours tend. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Of her affections and of the forms which she takes in this present life I think that we have now said enough. Plato. The Republic.
• If that handsome face, that fine figure, that smooth tongue, cannot win the affections of a woman, nothing else will. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• None of the direct affections seem to merit our particular attention, except hope and fear, which we shall here endeavour to account for. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The tenor, therefore, of their affections and feelings, must have borne the same general proportion to our own. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He is the husband of my affections,' cried Mrs. Micawber, struggling; 'and I ne--ver--will--desert Mr. Micawber! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was complete in the simplicity of his affections, in his com passion for all suffering, in the warmth of his religious faith, and in his devotion to his country. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Till lately I had reckoned securely on the duties and affections of wife and mother to occupy my existence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I did not so much think his pride was hurt, as that his affections had been wounded--cruelly wounded, it seemed to me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Man's nature, brimful of passions and affections, would have had an home in that little heart, whose swift pulsations hurried towards their close. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It's very curious, but the more I try to satisfy myself with all sorts of natural affections, the more I seem to want. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It is a name of heroism and renown; of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the spirit of chivalry and warm affections. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Every tenet will be adopted that best suits the disorderly affections of the human frame. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He had not to wait and wish with vacant affections for an object worthy to succeed her in them. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But these are only the first foundations of the affections of pity and malice. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Unless, indeed, it chanced to be doubted by the object of Mr Sparkler's affections. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• These passions, properly speaking, produce good and evil, and proceed not from them, like the other affections. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Don't trifle with her affections, you Don Juan! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Some responses are secured, but desires and affections not enlisted must find other outlets. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Separated from them; exalted in my heart; sole possessor of my affections; single object of my hopes, the best half of myself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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