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Passion Quotes by William Hazlitt
- A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
- We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse…
- Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with…
- The essence of poetry is will and passion.
- 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…
- It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they…
- An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
- People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself…
- A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove…
- Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the…
- Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable…
- Principle is a passion for truth
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