Once having passions you called them evil. Now however you have nothing but your virtues: they grew out of your passions.
You laid your highest goal upon these passions: then they became your virtues and delights.
And though you were from the stock of the choleric, or of the voluptuous, or of the religiously frantic, or of the vindictive:
At last all your passions grew virtues and all your devils angels.
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