"Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against……" — Ben Jonson
"Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding."
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174 Quotes by Ben Jonson
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and…
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
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More Passion Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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The law is reason, free from passion.
— Aristotle
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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
— J. J. Abrams
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
— Paul Auster
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Our passion is our strength.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
— Victoria Abril
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
— Francis of Assisi
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
— Mary Astell
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
— Mary Astell
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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