#passion

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

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I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness. ↗

— Steve Case

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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability. ↗

— Prince Charles

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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. ↗

— Kate Chopin

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I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion. ↗

— Roger Clemens

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