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Tag Name "Passions" (764)

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Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
Walter Raleigh
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
Roger L'Estrange
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Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
Livy
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Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Thomas Hobbes
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
Mikhail Lermontov
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Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking.
Martha Roth
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Passions change, politics are immutable.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
Andrew Michael Ramsay
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Walter Raleigh
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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?
Honore de Balzac
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Ben Jonson
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Passions are the gales of life.
Alexander Pope
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The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan Simmons
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The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.
Carmine Gallo
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When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
Daniel Goleman
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... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.
Caroline Gordon
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Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.
Daniel Pipes
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My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.
Danielle Cormack
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Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
Charles Caleb Colton
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