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#passions

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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#feed #flame #frame #his #love

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.


Renee Fleming


#american #eclectic #follow #going #hurts

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.


Adolf Hitler


#cast #distress #emotions #goddess #great

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.


Soren Kierkegaard


#else #embryo #exposed #grandiose #great

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.


Thomas Francis Meagher


#been #bid #birth #country #death

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.


Walter Pater


#comes #disinterested #ecstasy #enthusiastic #forms

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld


#absence #candles #diminishes #extinguishes #fans

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.


Robert Southey


#fly #life #love #other #others

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


Claud-Adrian Helvetius


#action #every #every man #him #man

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.


Lynn Abbey


#great #great passions #historical #passions #trivia






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