#passions

What passions cannot music raise or quell? ↗

— John Dryden

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Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#human #passions #sands #sea

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#decorator #houses #i #interior #passions

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#best #divest #many #men #never

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#action #every #every man #him #man