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Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!
Helen Hunt Jackson
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I love sharing my passions.
Rush Limbaugh
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In the human heart one generation of passions follows another from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect.
Thomas Jefferson
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Laozi
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Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.
Ken Robinson
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But, as an actress, you don't want to run into these scenes, willy-nilly. The couple that I did do were important for the character and essential to the plot, to show what was actually going on between each character. It is great to be able to have that, and to be able to say certain things and have certain passions.
Tamsin Egerton
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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
Louisa May Alcott
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In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Thomas Jefferson
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Those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, but you can't do that at the foot of the cross. Those who pierced Him also stood at the foot of the cross. Standing there does not bring any pain to the flesh but when you are crucified together with Jesus, you will come to know the fellowship of His sufferings.
Johan Oscar Smith
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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume
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Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common.
Ellen G. White
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A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's brush- is the thumbprint of her whole person- her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms.
Patricia Lee Gauch
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I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.
Eva Hoffman
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
Thomas Hobbes
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Americans have two ardent passions the love of liberty, and love of distinction.
Sarah Josepha Hale
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.
Humphry Davy
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The passions often engender their contraries.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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