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- For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
- One passion doth expel another still.
GEORGE CHAPMAN, Monsieur D'Olive
In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, Jan. 16, 1795
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Coningsby
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
JOHN DRYDEN, St. Cecilia's Day
No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.
LAURA ESQUIVEL, Swift as Desire
We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.
THOMAS DEKKER, The Honest Whore
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT, Discours sur la poésie dramatique
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE, On the Sublime and Beautiful
- Passion alone the abysses
- Lights, while we grope up the rifted
- Slopes; our spirits it kisses,
- Ere into the deeps we are drifted.
Everyone's got to be passionate about something, or they're not worth shit.
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
JOHN WESLEY, letter to Joseph Benson, Oct. 5, 1770
- We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet,
- Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.
ALFRED AUSTIN, "A Woman's Apology"
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