"Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions."
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"It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues."
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"We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge."
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"The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives."
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"In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another."
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"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
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"In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next."
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"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."
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"Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future."
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"Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason."
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"When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all."
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"Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions."
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"Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie."
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"We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire."
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"The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear."
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"The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another."
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"All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me."
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"Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before."
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"Writing on the road is a passion of mine."
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"Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world."
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