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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way (Passions Quotes)
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms (Passions Quotes)
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian (Passions Quotes)
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes? (Passions Quotes)
The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions (Passions Quotes)
There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you (Passions Quotes)
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same (Passions Quotes)
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace (Passions Quotes)
To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace (Passions Quotes)
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions (Passions Quotes)
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger (Passions Quotes)
The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival (Passions Quotes)
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb (Passions Quotes)
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest (Passions Quotes)
Has it not... invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice? (Passions Quotes)
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority (Passions Quotes)
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him (Passions Quotes)
Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them (Passions Quotes)
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do (Passions Quotes)
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim (Passions Quotes)
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay (Passions Quotes)
The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders, into intemperate and pernicious resolutions (Passions Quotes)
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject (Passions Quotes)
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you (Passions Quotes)
A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself (Passions Quotes)
The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government (Passions Quotes)
Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes (Passions Quotes)
From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry (Passions Quotes)
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train (Passions Quotes)
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain (Passions Quotes)