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    I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

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Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
These are read more

Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,
They do not point on me.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Passion Quotes,
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We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

by Thomas Dekker Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd.

Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd.

by William Collins Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action read more

Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very read more

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will
Would not admit.

Take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will
Would not admit.

by John Milton Found in: Passion Quotes,
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical read more

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

by Aldous Huxley Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, read more

Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!

by Kahil Gibran Found in: Passion Quotes,
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Search then the ruling passion; there alone,
The wild are constant, and the cunning known;
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Search then the ruling passion; there alone,
The wild are constant, and the cunning known;
The fool consistent, and the false sincere;
Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Passion Quotes,
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