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• Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Pain, Lying, Sacrifice

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.42

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• He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Spiritual, Strong, Hero

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• What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life, Pain, Water

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Political, Lessons

  James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The purely Great
  Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,
  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fate, Soul, Sirens

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.794, Delphi Classics

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• This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Death Of A Friend, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare”, p.184

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• Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Waiting, Advice, Casts

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• Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Mistress, Likes

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere”, p.323

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• There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

  Joseph Addison

  Bible, Song, Writing

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index ...”, p.126

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• The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

  Joseph Addison

  Party, Men, Soul

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.296

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• Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.114

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• The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Desire, Vehement

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.236

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• Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Thinking, Expression

  Joseph Addison (1827). “The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation”, p.92

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• Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Character, Weakness

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.22

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• That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, House, Mind

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• It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Soul, Degrees

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.7

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• The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

  Joseph Addison

  Wise, Time, Men

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.266

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• Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Heart, Years, Sometimes

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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• before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

  Alice Walker

  New Ventures, Track, Joy

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.145, New Press, The

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• Peace is our passion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.171, Algora Publishing

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• A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hobbies, Gains, Abomination

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.175, Vintage

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• Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

  John Wilmot

  Envy, Shame, Cowardice

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• Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Jealousy, Mankind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

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• There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Gone, Letters

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

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• It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Disappointment, Names, Faces

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1892, Delphi Classics

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