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| Lynn Abbey |
One of my great passions is...
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| Jack Henry Abbott |
The part of me which wanders...
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| John Adams |
Facts are stubborn things; and...
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| Aesop |
It is with our passions as...
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| Saint Thomas Aquinas |
Perfection of moral virtue does...
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| Honore de Balzac |
Ideas devour the ages as men...
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| Billy Barty |
We are people with all the...
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| Bernard Baruch |
Only as you do know yourself...
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| George Berkeley |
That neither our thoughts, nor...
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| Sarah Bernhardt |
He who is incapable of feeling...
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| Ambrose Bierce |
CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality...
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| Algernon H. Blackwood |
But the wicked passions of...
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| Bodhidharma |
The ignorant mind, with its...
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| Wade Boggs |
One guy that I wish was...
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| Barton Booth |
Touch'd either the Passions of...
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| Christian Nestell Bovee |
The passions are like fire...
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| Elizabeth Bowen |
We are minor in everything but...
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| Edmund Burke |
There is a boundary to men's...
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| Joseph Butler |
Both our senses and our...
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| Joseph Butler |
Every man hath a general...
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| Joseph Butler |
Every one of our passions and...
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| Joseph Butler |
Happiness or satisfaction consists only...
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| Joseph Butler |
The private interest of the...
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| Lord Byron |
Out of chaos God made a...
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| Lord Byron |
As long as I retain my...
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| Angela Carter |
Where ambition can cover its...
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| Nicolas de Chamfort |
All passions exaggerate; and they...
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| Francis X. Clines |
The resultant tales from life...
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
All thoughts, all passions, all...
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| Mason Cooley |
In bridge clubs and in...
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| Mason Cooley |
My passions have never jumped...
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| Mason Cooley |
Staid middle age loves the...
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| Mason Cooley |
The passions are the same in...
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| Charles Horton Cooley |
The literature of the inner...
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| Anna Julia Cooper |
One needs occasionally to stand...
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| Bill Cosby |
Nothing separates the generations more...
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| Elvis Costello |
I believe that music is...
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| James D'arcy |
I went further and further...
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| Bette Davis |
My passions were all gathered...
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| Denis Diderot |
To attempt the destruction of...
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| Denis Diderot |
Only passions, great passions can...
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| Denis Diderot |
One declaims endlessly against the...
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| Benjamin Disraeli |
Man is only truly great when...
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| Benjamin Disraeli |
Man is made to adore and...
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| John Dryden |
What passions cannot music raise...
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| Faye Dunaway |
So Liam and movies are...
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| Epictetus |
Control thy passions lest they...
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| Shelby Foote |
Of all the passions of mankind...
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| Benjamin Franklin |
Who is wise? He that learns...
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| Richard Le Gallienne |
More and more the world is...
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Passions are vices or virtues...
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| Nikolai Gogol |
Countless as the sands of the...
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| Oliver Goldsmith |
Pity and friendship are two...
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| Daniel Goleman |
When I say manage emotions, I...
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| Thom Gunn |
I deliberately wrote a poem in...
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| Alexander Hamilton |
When the sword is once drawn...
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| Alexander Hamilton |
Why has government been instituted...
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| Claud-Adrian Helvetius |
Every man without passions has...
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| Claude Adrien Helvetius |
By annihilating the desires, you...
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| Alexander Herzen |
You can no more bridle...
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| Ethan A. Hitchcock |
Men wholly bent on wordly...
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| Adolf Hitler |
All great movements are popular...
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| Eric Hoffer |
There is in most passions a...
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| Henry Home |
Violent passions are formed in...
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| David Hume |
Reason is, and ought only to...
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| David Hume |
Men are much oftener thrown on...
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| Aldous Huxley |
From their experience or from...
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| Charles Inglis |
All the dark, malevolent Passions...
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| Alfred Jarry |
The theater, bringing impersonal masks...
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| Thomas Jefferson |
The whole commerce between master...
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| Samuel Johnson |
Love is only one of many...
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| Joseph Joubert |
The passions of the young are...
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| Carl Jung |
A man who has not passed...
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| Alphonse Karr |
Love is the most terrible, and...
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| Jack Kerouac |
My fault, my failure, is not...
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| Alan Keyes |
When we, through our educational...
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| Soren Kierkegaard |
The paradox is really the...
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| Soren Kierkegaard |
Because of its tremendous solemnity...
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| Joseph Wood Krutch |
Few people have ever seriously...
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| Alphonse de Lamartine |
Private passions tire and exhaust...
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| Joshua Lederberg |
Try hard to find out what...
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| Georg C. Lichtenberg |
Man is to be found in...
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| Norman MacCaig |
And in a way, that's been...
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| Anna Magnani |
Great passions, my dear, don't...
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| Gustav Mahler |
I was a crazy young man...
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| Thomas Francis Meagher |
I now bid farewell to the...
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| Juliet Mills |
It is first and foremost very...
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| John Milton |
He who reigns within himself...
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| Thomas S. Monson |
We must not let our passions...
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| Susanna Moodie |
Large parties given to very...
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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent...
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| Vladimir Nabokov |
Literature and butterflies are the...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
In music the passions enjoy...
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| Florence Nightingale |
I have lived and slept in...
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| Baroness Orczy |
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd...
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| William Osler |
The natural man has only two...
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| Walter Pater |
Great passions may give us a...
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| Zebulon Pike |
Why cannot we correct the...
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| Alexander Pope |
Our passions are like convulsion...
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| Alexander Pope |
Passions are the gales of life...
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| Orson Pratt |
The true God He has extension...
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| Marcel Proust |
The time at our disposal each...
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| Herbert Read |
The assumption is that the...
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| Samuel Richardson |
The life of a good man...
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| Antoine Rivarol |
Reason is the historian, but...
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| Antoine Rivarol |
Vices are often habits rather...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
If we resist our passions, it...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
All the passions make us...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
Great souls are not those who...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
In the human heart new...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
The passions are the only...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
Those that have had great...
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| Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
If there be a love pure...
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| Eleanor Roosevelt |
Probably the happiest period in...
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| Bertrand Russell |
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly...
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| Marquis de Sade |
Are not laws dangerous which...
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| Marquis de Sade |
Lust is to the other passions...
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| Marquis de Sade |
They declaim against the passions...
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| Sallust |
No mortal man has ever served...
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| Carl Sandburg |
Anger is the most impotent of...
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| George Santayana |
The passions grafted on wounded...
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| Rick Santorum |
The idea is that the state...
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| Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
We should every night call...
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| Omar Sharif |
I had too many big passions...
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
The very essence of literature...
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| George A. Smith |
Our enemies are our evil deeds...
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| Ralph W. Sockman |
Good habits, which bring our...
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| Susan Sontag |
The love of the famous, like...
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| Robert Southey |
They sin who tell us Love...
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| Layne Staley |
Music is the career I'm lucky...
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| Richard Steele |
To be exempt from the Passions...
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| Henri B. Stendhal |
In love, unlike most other...
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| Stendhal |
The more a race is governed...
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| Stendhal |
Our true passions are selfish.
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| Laurence Sterne |
Lessons of wisdom have the...
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| Lytton Strachey |
The old interests of aristocracy...
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| Algernon Sydney |
Many things are unknown to the...
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| Elizabeth Taylor |
I've always admitted that I'm...
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| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
The happiness of a man in...
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| Gene Tierney |
Houses are one of my passions...
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| Lao Tzu |
Love is of all passions the...
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| Voltaire |
Anyone who seeks to destroy...
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| Edmund Waller |
The seas are quiet when the...
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| Horace Walpole |
Plot, rules, nor even poetry...
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| Oscar Wilde |
Most people are other people...
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| George Will |
Politics should share one purpose...
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| Terri Windling |
When I was younger, I was...
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| Mary Wortley |
A man that is ashamed of...
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| William Butler Yeats |
The creations of a great...
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| Tina Yothers |
I stopped acting because I had...
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