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135 quotesCuriosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Courage
Samuel Johnson
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Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
Revenge
Samuel Johnson
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Compassion
Samuel Johnson
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
Tenderness
Joseph Joubert
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Youth
Joseph Joubert
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Passion
Carl Jung
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
Passion
Soren Kierkegaard
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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
Speakers and Speaking
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Passion
Alphonse De Lamartine
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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Passion
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Hatred
Julie De Lespinasse
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Passion
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Compassion
Rush Limbaugh
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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
Judgment and Judges
Anne Mccaffrey
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Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Passion
George Meredith
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Miller
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He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
Self-control
John Milton
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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
Passion
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Fear
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Causes
Iris Murdoch
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
Instinct
Sir William Osler
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun