#passions

We are minor in everything but our passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#dimensions #drink #eat #extension #form

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

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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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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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