Quotes 61 till 80 of 118.
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One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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Pain and pleasure, grief and joy, passions and sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time.
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) -
Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4 -
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
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People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
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Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
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Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
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