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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs...

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about love

One of my great passions is the collection of historical...

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

Quote by Lynn Abbey

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about nightmare, emotions, objects, mind, world

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Quote by John Adams about state, things

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, ...

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Quote by Aesop about pasion, water, bad luck, fire, fire brigade, bad, good, good luck

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the...

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about encouragement, art, influence, music

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, ...

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about nature

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions...

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about chaos, god, world, people

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that...

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Quote by Bette Davis about purpose

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe...

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about people, man

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the...

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, justice, reason, man

Love is only one of many passions.

Love is only one of many passions.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about love

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about old, olderness

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Quote by Walter Pater about pasion, activity, sadness, common sense, sense, love, life

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Quote by Antoine de Rivarol about vice, habits

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other...

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Quote by Robert Southey about poetry, proudness, vanity, sin, love, life

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Quote by Carl Sandburg about anger, nothing

Our true passions are selfish.

Our true passions are selfish.

Quote by Stendhal about pasion

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but...

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about opinion, failure

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Quote by Nikolai Vasilievici Gogol about pasion, human imperfections

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