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• There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

  Gloria Steinem

  Crime, Possession, Crimes Of Passion

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• The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Letters, Fame

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.237

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• Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

  William Hazlitt

  Reflection, Men, Competition

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• I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Giving Up, Self, Persons

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.

  Jennifer James

  Consistency, World, Rewards

  Jennifer James (1987). “Windows”, Newmarket Press

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• What is reason now was passion heretofore.

  Ovid

  Reason

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• The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Anger, Men, Pay

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• The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Years, Long, Enough

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2006). “Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume Three: As Told By Her Family, Friends, and Neighbors”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!

  May Sarton

  Love Is, Views, Ethos

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Snow, Tree

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

  May Sarton

  Thinking, Two, People

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• More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

  May Sarton

  Art, Destruction, Seeds

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• Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

  May Sarton

  Poet, My Passion

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• World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

  Helen Keller

  Peace, World, Supremacy

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• A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

  William Shenstone

  Friendship, Tree, Different

  William Shenstone (1765). “Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone”, p.142

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• Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Struggle, Live Life, Writing

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• The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

  William Cowper

  Art, Poetry, Sides

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• Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Roots, Clothes, Perfect

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• The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Vanity, Depth, Spirit

  Elizabeth Bowen (1949). “The cat jumps, and other stories”

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• Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
  Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

  Alexander Pope

  Contentment, Fame, Neighbor

  Alexander Pope (1823). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems”, p.20

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• Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hands, May, Lasts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.33

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• I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?

  Beverly Sills

  Work, Simple, Thinking

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• Calm of mind, all passion spent.

  John Milton

  Mind, Calm

  Samson Agonistes l. 1755 (1671)

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• The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.

  Emma Lazarus

  Evil, Age, Agitation

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• The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Country, Heart, Countries Of The World

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America: With Fifty Splendid Engravings”, p.138

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