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~ Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, [including] the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions ~

Edmund Burke

~ Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy ~

Cyril Connolly

~ We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. ~

Connolly, Cyril

~ Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires. ~

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

~ Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart ~

Edmund Burke

~ I was happy but happy is an adult world. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher ~

Jeanette Winterson

~ How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion? ~

TIRUVALLUVAR

~ Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ~

Bodhidharma

~ The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls. ~

Francois de Salignac Fenelon

~ One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical for the paradox is the source of the thinkers passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. ~

Sren Kierkegaard

~ Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. ~

Louis Gerstner

~ It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. ~

Christian Nevell Bovee

~ Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram ~

Karl Kraus

~ Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. ~

Marlene Dietrich

~ A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~

Wystan Hugh Auden

~ Ideas consume the ages as passions consume men. When man is cured, humanity may possibly cure itself. ~

Honor de Balzac

~ The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. ~

Honor de Balzac

~ Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere. ~

Dalai Lama 1935

~ Compassion is an alternate perception ~

M.C. Richards

~ If you live for love you spread kindness and compassion everywhere you go. When you stop believing in your heart you are but a sterile vessel wandering in the wilderness. ~

Francis Hegmeyer

~ Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts. ~

Barbara Garrison

~ Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts. ~

Barbara Garrison

~ The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire. ~

Duc de La Rochefoucauld

~ If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~

John Wesley

~ 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

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

Aldous Huxley

~ Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion ~

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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