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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. -- Richard Whately
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. -- Alexander Pope
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine. -- bell hooks
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest. -- Alexander Pope
A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system. -- Graham Greene
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it. -- William Hazlitt
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. -- Mary McCarthy
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. -- William Hazlitt
Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business. -- Robert Frost
The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money. -- H. Rider Haggard
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. -- Alexander Pope
When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion. -- Laurence Sterne
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. -- Alexander Pope
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric. -- Robert Graves
The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes. -- Edward Gibbon
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain, and brings in perennial interest. -- Frederick Soddy
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them. -- Abraham Lincoln
The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed that enjoyment the most pleasing to their ear. They deserved, they assumed, they maintained the honourable epithet of Franks or Freemen; which concealed, though it did not extinguish, the peculiar names of the several states of the confederacy. -- Edward Gibbon
... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion. -- Storm Jameson
Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues equally so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Madmen are always constant in love; which no man in his senses ever was. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. -- Laurence Sterne
Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to -- Frederick Soddy
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. -- Khalil Gibran
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. -- Khalil Gibran

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