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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. (Robbins Tony)
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. (Robbins Tony)
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. (Robbins Tony)
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength. (Robbins Tony)
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. (Robbins Tony)
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. (Robbins Tony)
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. (Robbins Tony)
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. (Robbins Tony)
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. (Robbins Tony)
Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. (Robbins Tony)
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. (Robbins Tony)
None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness. (Robbins Tony)
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about. (Robbins Tony)
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. (Robbins Tony)
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. (Robbins Tony)
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. (Robbins Tony)
Passions are the gales of life. (Robbins Tony)
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. (Robbins Tony)
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady. (Robbins Tony)
Passion is the genesis of genius. (Robbins Tony)
Live with passion! (Robbins Tony)
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