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| Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals |
| Marcel Proust |
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| Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate. |
| Lord Byron |
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| Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last |
| Chamfort |
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| Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Subdue your passion or it will subdue you |
| Horace |
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| Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions |
| St. Thomas Aquinas |
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| That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else. |
| Ayn Rand |
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| The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| The law is reason free from passion |
| Aristotle |
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| The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget |
| William Osler |
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| The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way |
| Plato |
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| The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. |
| George Santayana |
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| The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. |
| Edmund Burke |
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