New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
- Topic: Passion
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Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
