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The Passion
«I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
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equality, idealize, idealized, idealizing, The Passion
«PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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brief, cupidity, disappoints, gratifies, held, indifference, material, particular, possession, property, rapacity, The Object of, The Passion
«Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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afflictions, anxieties, before Christ, christ, defect, guiltier, guilty, He Is Guilty, not guilty, passion, regard, share, sins, The Passion
«Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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consumes, earth, man, More, nothing, on earth, passion, quickly, resentment, resentments, Than, The Passion
«No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
Passion
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alter, draft, equal to, The Passion
«There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men-a man who lives without tobacco does not deserve to live.»
«I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived»
«Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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Amid, awful, bid, brothers, daring, Death of, destinies, in chorus, Lent, note, once more, orchestra, Orchestras, the Chorus, The Passion, trumpeting, trumpets, unseen