Other Passions Quotes

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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure… — Lord Byron
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. — John Ruskin
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is… — James Madison
The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still… — Plato
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than… — Thom Gunn
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love… — Robert Southey
No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are… — Harold Pinter
And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last… — Marcella Hazan
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue. — Tina Yothers
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he… — Maximus the Confessor
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury,… — Michel de Montaigne
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice,… — Marquis de Sade
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in… — Stendhal
Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with… — Edmund Burke
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to… — Samuel Johnson
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity. — Robert Southey
Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has. — Thomas Paine

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