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    It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the read more

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

by C. C. Colton Found in: Passion Quotes,
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But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
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But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.
- Isaac Watts,

by Isaac Watts Found in: Passion Quotes,
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And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom before its read more

And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom before its time,
And blanch, without the owner's crime,
The most resplendent hair.

by William Wordsworth Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

by Sir Walter Raleigh Found in: Passion Quotes,
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical read more

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.

by Aldous Huxley Found in: Passion Quotes,
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I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

by Albert Camus Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us.

if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us.

by Paul Acquasanta Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

by Ovid Found in: Passion Quotes, Wine Quotes,
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