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Passion: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Nice Valour. Song. Act III. Sc. 3.
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.— ROBERT BROWNING — Two in the Campagna. St. 12.
Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven.— BURNS — The Vision.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.— GEORGE CHAPMAN — Monsieur D'Olive. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 8.
Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd.— COLLINS- — The Passions. L. 10.
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.— THOMAS DEKKER — The Honest Whore. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 2.
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?— HELEN HUNT JACKSON — Vanity of
Vanities. If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maxims. No. 125.
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.— ROBERT LOWTH — Choice of Hercules.
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. L. 634.
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 262.
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind; Those only fix'd, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 207.
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. S.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 174.
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 153.
May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.— WALTER POPE — The Old Man's Wish.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.— SIR WALTER RALEIGH — The Silent
Lover. See CAYLEY'S Life of Raleigh. Vol. I. Ch. III. Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame; These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope, They do not point on me.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 43.
A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 7.
Give me that man That is not passion's slave.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 75.
O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with a passion would I shake the world.— Shakespeare — King John. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 38.
What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. aa.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 204.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall. St. 25.
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!— EDMUND WALLER — On Divine Poems. L. 7.
But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. C.— ISAAC WATTS — Divine Songs.
Song XVI. And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.— WORDSWORTH — Lament of Mary, Queen
of Scots. PAST (THE). Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."— ARISTOTLE — Ethics. Bk. VI. Ch. II.
R. W. Browne's trans. But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?— ROBERT BROWNING — Balaustion's
Adventure. John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent.— BURNS — John Anderson.
Gone-glimmering through the dream of things that were.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto II. St. 2.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.— BYRON — Letter. Jan. 28, 1821.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.— DRYDEN — Imitation of Horace. Bk. III. Ode XXIX. L. 71.
We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.— LOWELL — The Cathedral. L. 234.
Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine, For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow againe.— THOS. PERCY — Reliques. The Friar of
Orders Gray. See FLETCHER-The— Shakespeare — Queen of Corinth. Act III. Sc. 2.
L'absence diminue les médiocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maximes. 276.
Toutes les passions ne sont autre chose que les divers degrés de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang. All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Premier
Supplement. VIII. Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren. Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.— GOETHE — Faust. I. 4.
PAST (THE). Ils sont passés ces jours de fête. The days of rejoicing are gone forever.— DU LORENS — Le Tableau Parlant.
Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? But where are the snows of yester year?— VILLON — Ballade des Dames du Temps