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• I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

  Lord Byron

  Names, Magic, Sound

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.126, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Wisdom, Reason

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• The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Way Forward, Soul, Common

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• Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

  Bernard Baruch

  Thinking, Knowing, Discipline

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• As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Deceit, Assuming

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Christian, Humility, Evil

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• Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.

  Richard Leider

  Life, Moving, Our World

  Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love; but our life is not really won over or consecrated to an ideal. Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Blessed, Accomplish Nothing, May

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• I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Children, Summertime

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale”, p.79

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• An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

  William Hazlitt

  Coquette, Coquetry, Proportion

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• Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Cities, Vices

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• Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

  James Joyce

  Done, Opponents, Reason

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• Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.

  Pablo Picasso

  Motivation, World, Infinite

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• Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

  Wallace Stevens

  Acceptance, Broken, Lays

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

  Wallace Stevens

  Fall, Silence, Feels

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.287, Vintage

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• I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

  Gloria Naylor

  Drama, Writing, Eye

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• Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

  Helen Rowland

  Baby, Boys, Nineteen

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• The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Differences, Giving, Fancy

  Alexander Pope (1846). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes”, p.61

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• O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Wine, Voice

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• It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Practice, Government

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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Boredom, Soul

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• Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

  Bernard Berenson

  People, Enemy, Common

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

  Bernard Berenson

  Stress, Healing, Artist

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters”

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• Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Faces, Details

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• The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

  Odilon Redon

  Artist, Goal, Tenacity

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