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.
Passion Quotes
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.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
“All the passions,” says an old writer, “are such near neighbors, that if one of them is on fire the others should send for the buckets.” Thus love and hate being both passions, the one is never safe from the spark that sets the other ablaze.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name?
Great passions, my dear, don’t exist, they’re liars’ fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or longer while.
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false: its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted; he that admits it, is prepared to comply with every desire that caprice or opportunity shall excite, and to flatter himself that […]
