#passions

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

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The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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Vices are often habits rather than passions. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue. ↗

— Tina Yothers

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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. ↗

— James Buchan

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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

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More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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Love is only one of many passions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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