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~ Performance of great defiance and passion. ~

Robin Oakley

~ No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. ~

Boris Pasternak

~ Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts ~

James Russell Lowell

~ Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. ~

James Russell Lowell

~ Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. ~

Morgan Freeman

~ Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. ~

John Ruskin

~ Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. ~

Morarji Desai

~ A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ I think my writing was innate. Being so painfully shy and introverted as a child, as well as an extreme thinker with a hyperactive imagination, it seems befitting. It became such a powerful passion early on in life. ~

Kim Elizabeth

~ The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold. ~

Honore de Balzac

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

Francis De S.Fenelon

~ The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Faith is a passionate intuition. ~

William Wordsworth

~ Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason. ~

Betty Williams

~ The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ~

Christian Nestell Bovee

~ Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. ~

John Fowles

~ The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. ~

Soren Kierkegaard

~ This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null. ~

F. L. Lucas

~ The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. ~

Alfred Jarry

~ But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ~

Juan Goytisolo

~ Justice and goodwill will outlast passion. ~

James A. Garfield

~ Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. ~

Alphonse de Lamartine

~ A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ~

William Bennett

~ Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ~

François de la Rochefoucauld

~ Mother Veda is compassionate; she longs to liberate her children from doubt and discontent. She has no desire to inflame or confuse; wise men know this well. ~

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

~ How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world. ~

Kedar Joshi

~ The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. ~

Báb

~ Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. ~

Shelby Foote

~ Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has n (Quote by - resource, and the first wound is mortal. ~

Thomas Paine

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