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• Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.

  Carole Katchen

  Inspiration, Artist, People

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Book by T. S. Eliot, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (quoting Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916), 1964.

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• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, War, Character

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• The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.

  Richard Dawkins

  Convince Us, Awe And Wonder, Giving

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  T. S. Eliot

  Character, Causes, Violent

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard, ch. 1, 1916.

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Excellence

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Faith, Ideas

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.154, Lulu.com

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• With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Peace, Have A Great Day

  "What Donald Trump Can Teach Us About Self-Esteem (Even If You Hate His Guts)" by Laura Tong, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2016.

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• Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Relationship, Heart

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 15 (1850)

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• What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

  William Shakespeare

  Purpose, Propose, Loses

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.192

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• Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

  John Milton

  Judgement, Free Will, Heed

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.124

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• Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Feelings, Twenties

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Violent, Should, Disgusting

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• Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Ambition, Life Ambition

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• There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Athlete, Artist

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2017

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• If you are doing what you love then you're doing what is right. Desire and passion resonate with your body, mind and soul. When you're passionate you don't question, judge, criticize, second-guess, or doubt. It's that passion that will fuel the fire to overcome challenges.

  Layne Beachley

  Doing What You Love, Fire, Judging

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  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• We are minor in everything but our passions.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Literature, Minors

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Heart, Infinite

  'Two in the Campagna' (1855) st. 12

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• Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

  Coco Chanel

  Blessing, Boredom, Window

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• Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Loyalty, Good Life, People

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• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Literature, Conclusion

  1922 Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.15.

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• Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Men, Village Idiots

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• Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

  Voltaire

  Angel, Play, Trying

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• Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Heart, Winning

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 15 (1850)

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