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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Compassion
Meister Eckhart

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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Passion
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Passion
Frederico Fellini

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
Passion
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Conflict
Benjamin Franklin

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Heart
Robert Frost

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A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Passion
Thomas Fuller

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Anger
Thomas Fuller

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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Passion
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Passion
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Law and Lawyers
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Pity
Oliver Goldsmith

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Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
Dance and Dancing
Martha Graham

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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
Extremes and Extremists
Bishop Hall

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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
Poetry and Poets
William Hazlitt

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Passion
Georg Hegel

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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
Passion
Claude A. Helvetius

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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
Passion
Claude A. Helvetius

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Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
Glory
Thomas Hobbes

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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Animals
Eric Hoffer

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Hatred
Eric Hoffer

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Passion
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Anger
Horace

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Love
Horace

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun