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«My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.»
«Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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«They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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bothering, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, flame, lights, passions, philosophy, The Passions, torch, torches
«Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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Passion
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binds, disposition, temperance, The Passions
«The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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graceful, leisure, repose, resignation, resignations, retirement, The Passions
«The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
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excess, humors, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, spreads, The Passions
«RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and west, Expounds the passions burning in his breast. The rising moon o'er that enchanted land Pauses to hear and yearns to understand. --Mowbray Myles»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess»
«The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Passion,
Pride
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graft, grafted, grafting, grafts, inveterate, The Passions, vigorous, wounded
«Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.»
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