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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)

Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. (Quote by - George Meredith)

May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away. (Quote by - Walter Pope)

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music. (Quote by - George Lillo)

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. (Quote by - John Wesley)

The law is reason free from passion. (Quote by - Aristotle)

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. (Quote by - Boris Johnson)

Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope, They do not point on me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. (Quote by - Henri-Frederic Amiel)

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. (Quote by - Alphonse De Lamartine)

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. (Quote by - Orson Welles)

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. (Quote by - Alexander Herzen)

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. (Quote by - George Chapman)

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)

In music the passions enjoy themselves. (Quote by - Nietzsche)

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. (Quote by - Mozart)

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. (Quote by - Anthony J D'Angelo)

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. (Quote by - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

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