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There is no power greater than true affection. -- Seneca the Younger
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well. -- Carrie Fisher
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. -- Jean Paul
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it. -- Simone Weil
It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him. -- Michael Shanks
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
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love. -- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. -- John Dryden
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us. -- Mary Baker Eddy
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. -- Mary Shelley
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this. -- Ellen G. White
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard. -- Jeff Ross
True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry. -- Libba Bray
True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming. -- Donald Miller
True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection. -- Dalai Lama
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. -- Thomas Browne
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. -- Mary Baker Eddy

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