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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. -
Eric Hoffer
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. -
Alexander Pope
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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. -
William Penn
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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. -
Jean Paul
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. -
Blaise Pascal
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. -
Oliver Goldsmith
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. -
Georg Hegel
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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act. -
Claude A Helvétius
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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. -
Alexander Pope
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. -
Alexander Herzen
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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about. -
Earl Nightingale
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Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -
Henry Miller
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Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. -
George Meredith
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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