On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
Passion Quotes
That which you do not want to do is to fail in either clarity or in passion.
Passion often makes fools of the ablest, and lends ability to the most foolish.
And hence one master – passion in the breast, Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest.
Take mankind in general; they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
The man who is master of his passions is reason’s slave.
It is easy to fly into a passion – anybody can do that – but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way – that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
