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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Quote by Joseph Addison about miracle, admiration

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that...

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Quote by Joseph Addison about admiration

The duration of passion is proportionate with the...

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about woman

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, ...

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Quote by Aesop about pasion, water, bad luck, fire, fire brigade, bad, good, good luck

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about kiss, sex, things, people

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will...

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

Quote by Kim Basinger about tradition

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about ambition, character, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:...

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Quote by Aristotel about people, habits, chance, reason, nature, human imperfections

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the...

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about encouragement, art, influence, music

The law is reason, free from passion.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Quote by Aristotel about law, reason

The excitement of doing a matinee for 1, 000 children or...

The excitement of doing a matinee for 1,000 children or whatever it is-I miss the innocence, the sheer passion of that.

Quote by Armand Assante about innocence, children

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, ...

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about nature

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about atoms, spring, present, help, body, secret, mind, god, good, good luck

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about woman, existence, love, man, life

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions...

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about chaos, god, world, people

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But...

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Quote by John Bradshaw about contentment

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares...

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Quote by Albert Camus about truth, nothing

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste...

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Quote by Albert Camus about truth, sincerity, friendship, nothing

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, real estate

My agent lived in New York for over twenty years and like most people who are adopted New Yorkers she's very passionate about the city. Also, she has a particular interest in this period, especially of golden age Hollywood films.

Quote by Michael Chabon about city, interest, age, olderness, people

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