"Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!"

Moody, Dwight L. on death   

"As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady."

Pound, Ezra on passion   

"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

South, Bishop Robert on passion
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"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on passion
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"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on passion
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"To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other."

Barthes, Roland on passion
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"Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle."

Adams, Thomas on passion   

"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on friends and friendship
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"Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding."

Kalan on nature
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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

Berenson, Bernard on life
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"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion."

Catullus on love
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