"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind." — Robert South
"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."
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Robert South
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33 Quotes by Robert South
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There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret…
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not…
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the…
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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives…
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that…
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and…
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to…
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An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
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He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world…
— J. G. Ballard
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
— Samuel Butler
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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
— Mark Twain
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin;…
— Willa Cather
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men.…
— William Penn
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
— Seneca the Younger
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an…
— Roland Barthes
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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth…
— Saint Augustine
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I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the…
— John Cheever
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Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
— William Shakespeare
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