#pass

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#because #changes #clever #complex #deceptively

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#decent #english #language #learned #left

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#awe-inspiring #clearly #far #far away #friend

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. ↗

— William Godwin

#imagination #love #no love #passion #where

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#dislike #envy #hate #hatred #passive

Mastery passes often for egotism. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#mastery #often #passes

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#passions #powers #their #vices #virtues

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#came #chimney #continue #ever #hearth

Conscience is a man's compass. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#conscience #man