Synonyms for affections
af·fec·tions

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1. List of paraphrases for "affections":

   feelings

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1. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   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.

2. George Sand:

   Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness.

3. Henri de Montherlant:

   Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

4. Joseph Joubert:

   I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

5. Alfred A. Montapert:

   The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.