Passion

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  • The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
        Democritus   Best?
  • Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
        Denis Diderot   Best?
  • The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
        Sir John Holt   Best?
  • Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
        Charles Caleb Colton   Best?
  • Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
        Jimmy Breslin   Best?
  • Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
        E. Joseph Crossman   Best?
  • When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
        Leo Tolstoy   Best?
  • Whenever you come to a 'Y' in the road always remember that you have a third choice of path: And that is right down the middle, where no one has gone before.
        Kyle McPherson   Best?
  • I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
        Thomas Paine   Best?
  • We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
        Athol Fugard   Best?
  • There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
        Dryden   Best?
  • There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
        Phylicia Rashad   Best?
  • Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
        Robert J. Sawyer   Best?
  • A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
        Niccollo Machavelli   Best?
  • New Jersey needs a hero. Bon Jovi does not count.
        Kurt Angle, Gold Medal Olympic   Best?
  • Failure is defined by our reaction to it.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.
        Howard Baker Jr.   Best?
  • Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.
        Andrew Jackson   Best?
  • Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.
        George Moore   Best?
  • He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • A great flame follows a little spark.
        Dante Alighieri   Best?
  • To add insult to injury.
        Phaedrus   Best?
  • It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • On action alone be thy interest,
        Bhagavad Gita   Best?
  • Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
        Mencius   Best?
  • You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
        Demosthenes   Best?
  • Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
        Herodotus   Best?
  • Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
        Herodotus   Best?
  • Time cancels young pain.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
        Confucious   Best?
  • The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
        Confucious   Best?
  • Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
        M. Kathleen Casey   Best?

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