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• I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

  R. S. Thomas

  Kings, Heart, Knowing

  "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954" by R. S. Thomas". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.

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• Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Virtue, Defects, Highest

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Christians should not be hostile, they should not hate, they should not judge, and they should not condemn. But they also must not shy away from real Truth and real Christianity. Just because so many have “itching ears” and “will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions” does not mean Christians should be willing to scratch that itch.

  Erick Erickson

  Christian, Teacher, Hate

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• Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Creativity, Artist, Strive

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• One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.

  Sunidhi Chauhan

  Photography, Crazy, Being Real

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• The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

  Muhammadu Buhari

  Dream, Believe, Done

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• Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

  Steve Aoki

  Art, Love Is, Fans

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• The passions often engender their contraries.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Contrary

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• Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Depressing, Art, Grief

  Thomas De Quincey (1862). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And, Suspiria de Profundis”, p.182

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• Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, May, Emotion

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.276

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• Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Vices, Noble

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• What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Poetry, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Powerful, Grief, Ambition

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• Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Kissing, Heaven, Looks

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.77

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• They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

  Martial

  Lawyer, Eloquence, Referring

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• Love why do we one passion call,
  When 'tis a compound of them all?
  Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,
  In all their equipages meet;
  Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear,
  Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.681

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• The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

  Edith Sitwell

  Spring, Fire, Break Out

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• [Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Exercise, Emotional

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.331, eBookIt.com

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• We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

  Pliny the Elder

  Envy, Inferiority, Appearance

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• The passions are the voice of the body.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Voice, Body, Conscience

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.476, eKitap Projesi

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• Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

  Ouida

  Love, Past, Men

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.26, Ouida

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• Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

  Honore de Balzac

  Justice, Victim, Social

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• The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Party, Heart, Political

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.49

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• In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Citizens, Failing

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.301, Hackett Publishing

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• I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Work, Believe, People

  Katherine Mansfield (1951). “Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922”

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