#passions

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

— Samuel Richardson

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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

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A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. ↗

— Mary Wortley

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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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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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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Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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