#passions

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

— Samuel Richardson

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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. ↗

— Charles Inglis

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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