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• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

  George Eliot

  Art, War, Together

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

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• But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Principles, Purpose, Sin

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Edgar Smith (2015). “The Scarlet Letter & A Scarlet Stigma: Romance and The Adapted Play (Illustrated Edition): A Romantic Tale of Sin and Redemption - The Magnum Opus of the Renowned American Author of “The House of the Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales” along with its Dramatic Adaptation and Biography”, p.214, e-artnow

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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

  Law, Facts, Logic

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• Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mankind

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.12

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• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Voice, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Change, Heart

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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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

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Scar

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• When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

  Margery Allingham

  Inspirational, Violent, Explosions

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Breakup, Children, People

  "Gertrude". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 217, 1910.

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• Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

  Derek Walcott

  Mirrors

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

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• I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

  Steve Irwin

  Education, Motivation, Believe

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• It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

  Rebecca West

  Destiny, Soul, Desire

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?

  Joss Whedon

  Lying, Sleep, Empty Rooms

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". www.imdb.com. 1997-2003.

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• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

  Joseph Addison

  Admiration And Respect, Decay, Growing

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). “The Spectator”, p.26

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• The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Hope, Two

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.135, The Floating Press

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• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Literature, Duration

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• Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Joy, Looks

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• Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Art, Television, Entertainment

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.55, Bantam

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• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Music, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

  Sue Grafton

  Fear, Dark, People

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• If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Office, Ethics

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

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• Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Names, Flames, Bees

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1892). “Poems”

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• Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Justice, Police Officer

  Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1827). “A Dictionary of the English Language”, p.617

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• Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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