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  • When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Passion Quotes , Heart Quotes
  • A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Passion Quotes , Learning Quotes
  • With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Strong Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Passion Quotes , Sleep Quotes
  • The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Anger Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Real Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Passion Quotes , Heart Quotes