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Letter "T" » The Passions
«When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
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«Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
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conform, conform to, constraint, constraints, dictates, instituted, instituting, The Passions
«The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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essence, ignore, intellect, intellectual, literature, silly, sterile, substance, substances, The Passions, The War
«To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude»
«When the passions become masters, they are vices»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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