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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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But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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