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• I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

  Florence Nightingale

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  Tags in Excited, Passions, Women

• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

  Faye Dunaway

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Passions, Write

• Try hard to find out what you’re good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

  Joshua Lederberg

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• Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

  Thomas S. Monson

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• Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

  Gene Tierney

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• I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don’t think that way. I still don’t have a ‘bliss’ to follow. For people like me – I suspect that’s most people – holding out for a ‘dream’ or a ‘passion’ is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That’s hard enough… but it’s enough.

  Jane Pauley

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Suspect, Passions

• The seas are quiet when the winds give o’er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

  Edmund Waller

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• All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

  Charles Inglis

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  Tags in Principles, Passions

• We are minor in everything but our passions.

  Elizabeth Bowen

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• I’ve always admitted that I’m ruled by my passions.

  Elizabeth Taylor

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• I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

  Elvis Costello

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• Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

  Epictetus

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Passions, Fires, Candle

• Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

  Francois Marie Arouet

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• When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet.

  Laurence Sterne

  Topics in Life, Religion

  Tags in Passions, Peace, Neighbors

• Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

  Laurence Sterne

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• Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

  Zebulon Pike

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  Tags in Passions, Correct, Weakens, Good

• If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Tags in Ourselves, Passions

• The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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