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  • But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Soulmate Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Art Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Passion Quotes , Dedication Quotes
  • It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Country Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Music Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Flower Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Fall Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Passion 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
  • Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Passion Quotes , Men Quotes