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passion

quitting

work

hobby

liking

preference

ambition

vocation

is a defect or virtue in the highest power.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is a powerful spring and a bad regulator.

is a rebel to reason, just as reason is a rebel to faith.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. Thomas Browne

is a sensible desire that has become a lasting inclination.

A passion is a sensible desire that has become a lasting inclination (e.g., hatred, as opposed to anger). The calm with which one gives oneself up to it permits reflection and allows the mind to form principles upon it and so, if inclination lights upon something contrary to the law, to brood upon it, to get it rooted deeply, and so to take up what is evil (as something premeditated) into its maxim. And the evil is then properly evil, that is, a true vice. [2]

is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. William Penn

is almost in a constant succession such that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally to be nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally to be nothing else but the production and the setting up of another. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately it is often just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.

Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children... often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them. Hermann Hesse

is an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

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