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“Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being”

“Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.”

Ifs Mind Children Natural Knowing Creatures Adults Affection Selfish

Book:A Treatise on Parents and Children

Source: A Treatise on Parents and Children

“To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.”

Ends Form Nature Natural Mountain Bounds Affection Landscape Inferiors Scenery Natural Scenery

Author:John Muir

“The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.”

Ifs Humans Heart Natural Affection Arise Intense Electric Truest

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.”

Source: An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer

“Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.”

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Author:Daniel Boone

“A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.”

Heart Natural Son Needed Affection Captives

Author:Adoniram Judson Gordon

“Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.”

Humans Has Beens Joy Religion Passion Natural Sin Race Christianity Sweet Affection Human Race Gladness

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.”

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Book:Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

Source: Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

“A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.”

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?”

World Way Self Home Natural Worst Produce Instinct Affection Seeking Manners Outcomes Self Respect Politeness Suppression Natural Instinct

Author:Humphry Davy

“Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.”

People Thinking Reason Kids Natural Affection Grandparent Affinity Older People

Book:If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

“... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.”

Should Feelings Earth Beautiful Left Natural Words Of Wisdom Instinct Dear Affection Productions Weed Almighty Sweetest New Feelings

Book:Works: ¬The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; 2

Source: Works: ¬The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; 2

“It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.”