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Quotes About Devotion

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
~ Jane Austen
But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.
~ John Constable
Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
~ Jojo Moyes
It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.
~ Jupiter Hammon
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
~ Charles Darwin
We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.
~ Confucius
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
~ Max Beckmann
A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
~ Napoleon Hill
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
~ Paul Valery
When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.
~ Percy Sledge
We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham.
~ J. C. Ryle
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
~ Anthony Trollope
I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl.
~ Betty Grable
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
~ Paul McCartney
If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
~ Plato
If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.
~ Hojo Shigetoki
Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved
~ James Cameron
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
~ Jane Austen