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Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Nice Valour--Song (act III, sc. 3)
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Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Two in the Campagna (st. 12)
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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Monsieur D'Olive (act V, sc. 1, l. 8)
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Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd.
Author: William Collins
Source: The Passions (l. 10)
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We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
Author: Thomas Dekker
Source: The Honest Whore (pt. II, act I, sc. 2)
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Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame;
Each to his passion; what's in a name?
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Hunt)
Source: Vanity of Vanities
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If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than
from our strength.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (no. 125)
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All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat
and cold of the blood.
[Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers
degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Premier Supplement (VIII)
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Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Author: Robert Lowth
Source: The Choice of Hercules (1)
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Take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will
Would not admit.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 634)
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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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 174)
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And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 262)
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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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 207)
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The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 153)
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May I govern my passions with absolute sway,
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.
Author: Walter Pope
Source: The Old Man's Wish
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Source: The Silent Lover
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Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, ii)
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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with passion would I shake the world,
And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
Which scorns a modern invocation.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, iv)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at V, ii)
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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel
force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Locksley Hall (st. 25)
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more!
Author: Edmund Waller
Source: On Divine Poems (l. 7)
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But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.
- Isaac Watts,
Author: Isaac Watts
Source: Divine Songs for Children--Against Quarreling and Fighting
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Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It
merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at
best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as
often as possible.
Author: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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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.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Author: Orson Welles
Source: None
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Source: None
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I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
Author: Patricia Moyes
Source: None
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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Author: Margery Allingham
Source: None
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Author: D H Lawrence
Source: None
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
Author: C S Lewis
Source: None
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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Author: Ovid
Source: None
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Author: Roland Barthes
Source: None
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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Author: Anthony J D'Angelo
Source: None
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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Author: Anthony J D'Angelo
Source: None
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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Author: Claude A Helvetius
Source: None
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Author: Honore De Balzac
Source: None
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Source: None
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Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
Author: Chang Ch'ao
Source: None
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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Author: Paul Eldridge
Source: None
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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Author: C C Colton
Source: None
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Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Author: Mozart
Source: None
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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 it's spark.
Author: Henri-Frederic Amiel
Source: None
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Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Source: None
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Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: None
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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
Source: None
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
Source: None
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