The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Passion Quotes
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
May I govern my passion with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.
To live fully is to be engaged in the passions of one’s times.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Let not any one say that he cannot govern his passions, nor hinder them from breaking out and carrying him to action; for what he can do before a prince or a great man, he can do alone, or in the presence of God if he will.
Passions are liken’d best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
