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Tag Name "Passions" (764)

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
Albert Camus
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron
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Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love
William Shakespeare
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When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
Alan Keyes
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I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
William Shakespeare
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Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.
Raymond Cattell
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I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
William Shakespeare
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
David Hume
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A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.
William Shenstone
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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
William Sloane Coffin
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Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions but it rectifies none of them.
William Warburton
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Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.
William Warburton
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Only when we rid ourselves of passions and lust and put the desires of flesh under the control of Spi­rit, only then we accept the cross and follow Christ. And withdrawal from the world is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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True passions do not deprive love.
Akiane Kramarik
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If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.
Winston Churchill
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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'
Aesop
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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
Rene Descartes
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We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.
Charles Lindbergh
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Believe in your passions and act on them.
Zainab Salbi
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
Zebulon Pike
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Sloth is all passions the most powerful.
Samuel Beckett
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Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.
Richard Schmid
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