| Author |
Quotes |
| Aldous Huxley | 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. |
| Alexander Pope | 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. |
| Alexander Pope | And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. |
| Alexander Pope | In men, we various ruling passions find, In women two almost divide the kind, Those only fix'd, they first or last obey. The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. |
| Alexander Pope | The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions |
| Anthony J Dangelo | Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. |
| Anthony J Dangelo | Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. |
| Alexander Pope | 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. |
| Alexander Pope | And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. |
| Alexander Pope | In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind; Those only fix'd, they first or last obey. The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. |
| Alexander Pope | The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. |
| C C Colton | Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. |
| C S Lewis | Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. |
| Chang Chao | Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. |
| Cicero | He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. |
| Claude A Helvetius | Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. |
| D H Lawrence | Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. |
| Edmund Waller | The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! |
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