Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Passion
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You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
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While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.
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