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    Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron read more

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.

by Henri-fréderic Amiel Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
These are read more

Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,
They do not point on me.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very read more

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Passion Quotes,
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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with passion would I shake the world,
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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with passion would I shake the world,
And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
Which scorns a modern invocation.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

by Tony Robbins 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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his read more

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

by Alfred Lord Tennyson Found in: Passion Quotes,
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