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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
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A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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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.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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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 appearances.
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
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Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
Aphorisms in the English Review -
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize
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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.
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