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Quote by Margery Allingham
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, tha

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. – Margery Allingham

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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. – Margery Allingham

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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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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Passion doesnt look beyond the moment of its existence. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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

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