VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will Would not admit.

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.

And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.

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.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

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.

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

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.

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.