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

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