The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerou

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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

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For passion has come to the verge and leaps headlong to the blind abyss, yet gathers thereby the strength of deeps, and eddies a moment and swirls and sweeps till peril is one with bliss! – Harriet L. Childe Pemberton

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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856

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I dont think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because Im putting so much into it. – George Brett

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