"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china."
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"Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair."
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"Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself."
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"The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS."
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"Passion is listening."
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"Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God."
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"From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept."
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"We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom."
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"Passion is never enough; neither is skill."
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"It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."
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"Passion is the beginning of success"
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"Passion makes the old medicine new: Passion lops off the bough of weariness. Passion is the elixir that renews: how can there be weariness when passion is present? Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue: seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!"
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"This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook."
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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
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"Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates."
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"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."
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"You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys."
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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
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"Paradise is to love many things with a passion."
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"Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?"
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