Passions Quotes
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
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It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.
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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.
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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.
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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
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Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
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The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
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To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
