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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual — when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions — it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Great short quote and quotation by: Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, […]
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual — when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions — it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Great short quote and quotation by: Isaac Bashevis Singer , US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 […]
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Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell, Autobiography , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. Great short quote and quotation by: Joseph Addison , English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any […]
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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – […]
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life. Great short quote […]
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Hamilton , US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 – 1804)
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John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love. Great short quote and quotation by: John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956 , US movie actor & director (1907 – 1979)
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