Passion Quote by Zebulon Pike Download Open image “Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?” — Zebulon Pike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Passion Weakening
The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It is of capital importance for us to discipline the heart,[FN#209] otherwise it will discipline us. Passions are like legs. They should be guided… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father? — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things… — C JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Without passion and satisfaction, there is nothing to make happiness last.” — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future - you cannot foresee that. — Edinson Cavani Copy Share Image
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
