#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

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ↗

— Carl Jung

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Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

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

— Gene Tierney

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. ↗

— Voltaire

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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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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