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Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot oh his reason.
Penn.
Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul; when men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects’ but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.
Sprat.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.
Plato.
A wise man’s heart is like a broad hearth that keeps the coals from burning the house. Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day.
Overbury.
Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their life.
Steele.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Swift.
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us, and we seem to stand by and wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that in one instant does the work of long premeditation.
George Eliot.
The passions are unruly cattle, and therefore you must keep them chained up, and under the government of religion, reason and prudence. If thus kept under discipline, they are useful servants; but if you let them loose and give them head, they will be your masters, and unruly masters, and carry you, like wild and unbridled horses, into a thousand mischief’s and inconveniences, besides the great disturbance, disorder and discomposure they will occasion in your own mind.
Sir M.Hale.
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
Brooke.
The mind by passion driven from its firm, hold, becomes a feather to each wind that blows.
Shakespeare.
People have a custom of excusing the enormities of their conduct by talking of their passion, as if they were under the control of a blind necessity, and sinned because they could not help it.
Cumberland.
It is the excess and not the nature of our passions which is perishable. Like the trees which grow by the tomb of Protesilaus, the passions flourish till they reach a certain height, but no sooner is that height attained than they wither away.
Bulwer.
A vigorous mind is an necessarily accompanied with violent passions as a great fire with great heat.
Burke.
The passions may be humored till they become our masters, as a horse may be pampered till he gets the better of his rider; but early discipline will prevent mutiny, and keep the helm in the hands of reason.
Cumberland.
Passions make us feel, but never see clearly.
Montesquieu.
The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart; producing good, if moderately indulged; but certain destruction, if suffered to become inordinate.
Burton.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Lavater.
Passion makes the will lord of the reason.
Shakespeare.
Passion are likened best to floods and streams: the shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Sir W.Raleigh.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
South.
Penn.
Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul; when men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects’ but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.
Sprat.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.
Plato.
A wise man’s heart is like a broad hearth that keeps the coals from burning the house. Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day.
Overbury.
Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their life.
Steele.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Swift.
There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us, and we seem to stand by and wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that in one instant does the work of long premeditation.
George Eliot.
The passions are unruly cattle, and therefore you must keep them chained up, and under the government of religion, reason and prudence. If thus kept under discipline, they are useful servants; but if you let them loose and give them head, they will be your masters, and unruly masters, and carry you, like wild and unbridled horses, into a thousand mischief’s and inconveniences, besides the great disturbance, disorder and discomposure they will occasion in your own mind.
Sir M.Hale.
The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
Brooke.
The mind by passion driven from its firm, hold, becomes a feather to each wind that blows.
Shakespeare.
People have a custom of excusing the enormities of their conduct by talking of their passion, as if they were under the control of a blind necessity, and sinned because they could not help it.
Cumberland.
It is the excess and not the nature of our passions which is perishable. Like the trees which grow by the tomb of Protesilaus, the passions flourish till they reach a certain height, but no sooner is that height attained than they wither away.
Bulwer.
A vigorous mind is an necessarily accompanied with violent passions as a great fire with great heat.
Burke.
The passions may be humored till they become our masters, as a horse may be pampered till he gets the better of his rider; but early discipline will prevent mutiny, and keep the helm in the hands of reason.
Cumberland.
Passions make us feel, but never see clearly.
Montesquieu.
The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart; producing good, if moderately indulged; but certain destruction, if suffered to become inordinate.
Burton.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Lavater.
Passion makes the will lord of the reason.
Shakespeare.
Passion are likened best to floods and streams: the shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Sir W.Raleigh.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
South.
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