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Passion Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
- The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character…
- I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
- The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
- Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from…
- We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,…
- We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
- Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
- It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion.…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
- Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
- The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A…
- The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal…
- Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.
More Passion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe