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“Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.”

World Want Character Passion Wise Honor Command Chains Rely Appetite Resisting Fear Not Polished

Author:Horace

“To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.”

Mean Hands Seems Desire Passion Wealth Poverty Humility Honor Demand Empty Riches Vanity Display Crave Obscurity Furious

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“The strongest passion which I have is honor.”

Passion Honor Strongest

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.”

Men Passion Term Honor Glory Strive Generous Depressing Contests Strife Handsome Emulation Enterprising

Author:Jeremy Collier

“The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.”

“By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!”

Wanted Passion Black Dying Honor Suicide Flames Daylight

Author:Jean Racine

“Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.”

Thinking Feels Real Passion Sun Focus Generations Fields Honor Paper Glasses Heat New Generation Magnetic Magnifying Magnifying Glass Magnetic Fields

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.”

Knows Way Body Passion Honor Holiness Knowing God Pagan Lustful

Author:Paul the Apostle

“There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.”

Men Mind Passion Fear Grief Masters Honor Weak Revenge Triumph Mates Fear Of Death

Author:Francis Bacon

“Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.”

Men Passion Powerful Inspire Honor Battle Longing Constant

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.”

Source: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill

“The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing him with steadfast passion and enthralled fury — instead of loving him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; instead of attributing to him glory and honor and praise and power and wisdom and strength — we just try to take his toys and run. It is still idolatry to want God for his benefits but not for himself.”

Want Trying Mind Heart Stills Soul Running Universe Passion Rich Wise Honor Horror Benefits Glory Praise Valuable Toys Fury Loving God Idolatry Steadfast Loving Him Glory And Honor

Author:Matt Chandler

“Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.”

Men Passion Strong Freedom Lord Poverty Wise Honor Finished Chains Despise Alarms

Author:Horace

“It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.”

Passion Enjoy Inspiring Share Honor Great Music Passion For Music

Author:Solange Knowles

“Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.”

Love Life Passion Love Is Honor Noble Kindles

Author:John Dryden