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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
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Thomas Fuller
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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Carl Jung
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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Voltaire
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Chase your passion, not your pension.
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Denis Waitley
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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
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Claude A. Helvetius
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
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Claude A. Helvetius
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
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George Burns
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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
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Joseph Campbell
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
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Lord Byron
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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Sir Thomas Browne
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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
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Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
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Denis Diderot
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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
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Thomas Adams
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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
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Christian Nevell Bovee
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Eugene W. Smith
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Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
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Bishop Robert South
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Anthony Robbins
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
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William Penn
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Passion is the trigger of success.
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Source Unknown
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Honore De Balzac
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
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Jean Paul
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Alexander Pope
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
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George Meredith
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Alphonse De Lamartine
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.
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Source Unknown
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Alexander Pope
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
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Frederico Fellini
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Denis Diderot
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59 votes
We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
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Wilbur Wright
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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Georg Hegel
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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John Irving
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