#passions

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

— Mason Cooley

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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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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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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing. ↗

— Omar Sharif

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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive. ↗

— Taylor Swift

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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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Our true passions are selfish. ↗

— Stendhal

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Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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