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Passions Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is…
- Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only…
- Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions,… — Bernard Baruch
- He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will… — Sarah Bernhardt
- Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television,… — Jeff Bezos
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce
- It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. — Aesop
- One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but… — Wade Boggs
- The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- We are minor in everything but our passions. — Elizabeth Bowen
- If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan