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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. (Quote by - Robert Sternberg)

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. (Quote by - G M Trevelyan)

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. (Quote by - Seneca)

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)

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)

We must act out passion before we can feel it. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. (Quote by - Marquis De Sade)

Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross. (Quote by - Katherine Philips)

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act. (Quote by - Claude A. HelvTtius)

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. (Quote by - Roger L'Estrange)

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. (Quote by - D H Lawrence)

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife. (Quote by - Steve Irwin)

I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it. (Quote by - George Brett)

When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then given views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities (Quote by - David Hume)

My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. (Quote by - Destiny Vaestus)

I s the sou s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. (Quote by - Rebecca West)

The passions are the only orators which always persuade. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

Passion is the genesis of genius. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what yo ve got to say, and say it hot. (Quote by - D.H. Lawrence)

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion. (Quote by - Martha Graham)

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