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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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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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. – Honoré de Balzac

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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. – Garrison Keillor

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