PASSION.
Take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will
Would not admit.
Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII. MILTON.
In men, we various ruling passions find;
In women two almost divide the kind;
Those only fixed, they first or last obey,
The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
Moral Essays, Epistle II. A. POPE.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
The Silent Lover. SIR W. RALEIGH.
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.
Henry VI., Pt. III. Act iv. Sc. 8 SHAKESPEARE.
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Hear then the truth: 'Tis Heav'n each passion sends,
And different men directs to different ends.
Extremes in nature equal good produce;
Extremes in man concur to general use.
Moral Essays, Epistle III. A. POPE.
And hence one master passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Essay on Man, Epistle II. A. POPE.