They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. – Marquis De Sade

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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. – Jean de la Fontaine

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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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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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