Anger Quote by William Ellery Channing

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

— Ida B. Wells

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

— Anonymous

“The essential passions of the heart have found a better soil in which it may attain it's maturity; remain under less restraint and extended…

— Anonymous

This purity is attained through conquering the passions.

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits,…

— Joseph Lyons

“The body should be strong enough to obey the mind; a good servant must be strong. I know that intemperance stimulates the passions; in…

— Anonymous

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

— Rene Descartes

But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper and natural…

— Edward Gibbon

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but…

— Victor Hugo

“The passions, moreover, become good in those who are spiritually earnest once they have wisely separated them from corporeal objects and used them to…

— John Behr

“It is easy to compress the passions by violence. Philosophy suppresses them with a stroke of the pen. Locks and the sword come to…

— Charles Fourier