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passion perfect roller-coaster
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all. David Horowitz
passion political healthy
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue.
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The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees. David Hume
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Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
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Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is the standard of sentiment. Propositions in geometry may be proved, systems in physics may be controverted; but the harmony of verse, the tenderness of passion, the brilliancy of wit, must give immediate pleasure. No man reasons concerning another's beauty; but frequently concerning the justice or injustice of his actions.
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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
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Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.
passion imagination shade
Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.
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It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.
imagination vivid spheres
In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.
imagination heaven perception
Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.
imagination today world
What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today. Astrid Lindgren
imagination world firsts
Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
imagination world actors
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. Derek Jacobi
imagination leap-of-faith situation
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
imagination mediocrity capacity
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon. Denise Levertov
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I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented. Diana Gabaldon
imagination world may
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail. Blaise Pascal
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We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. Lillian Gordy Carter
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life. E. F. Benson
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In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings. Kara Swisher
affection appreciated lost
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. Benjamin Disraeli
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When affection only speaks, truth is not always there
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. Josh Billings
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One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can equally enjoy the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
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More consumers have more discretionary income. This is an occasion that brings out the inner child in us all. And Canadian consumers have shown a real affection for Halloween.
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Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end