All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
quote by Nicolas de Chamfort
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A Poem on Fanciful Passions
The flowing currents
Of sheer savage passions
Awakened a forgotten era
They gate-crashed
To unlock the flow
Inundating whatever
Came their way
Directed yet directionless
The passions recklessly danced
The glow-worm passions
Settled on the night-skin and
By morning turned into
A bouquet of fresh flowers
Secretly nurtured and bloomed
Within a loving and longing heart
poem by Indira Babbellapati
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
quote by Alexander Herzen
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
quote by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
quote by Bob Edwards
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Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
quote by Francis Bacon
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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
quote by Franz Grillparzer
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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
quote by Eric Hoffer
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
quote by Honore de Balzac
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What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.
quote by Wayne Knight
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Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
quote by Charles de Secondat
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You can fake your promotion
You can exaggerate your advertisement
But you can’t deny that the best also has its limit
poem by Maria Sudibyo
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These Are 'My' Moments to Savor
What are you doing?
'Savoring 'each' moment.'
But why exaggerate 'each' footstep?
'These are 'my' moments to savor! '
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The truth always suffers.
When I speak to you of one,
I either exaggerate or derogate
About him depending on
Whether he is your friend or foe.
20.04.2006
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.
quote by Bill Delahunt
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The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
quote by Hegel
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The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.
quote by Rick Santorum
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Be it exact
Don’t exaggerate a thing.
It will leave an image
Less than its life size,
Defeating your very purpose.
28.06.2007
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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