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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


  • Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. - Alexander Pope


  • Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. - William Penn


  • Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. - Jean Paul


  • Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. - Blaise Pascal


  • It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. - Oliver Goldsmith


  • We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. - Georg Hegel


  • Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act. - Claude A HelvĂ©tius


  • The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. - Alexander Pope


  • 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


  • 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


  • 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


  • Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. - George Meredith


  • 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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