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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

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

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. - Isaac Watts,

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

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

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

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.

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.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.