JULIET.—O, think'st thou we shall ever meet again?
ROMEO.—I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.
Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Underwoods.. B. JONSON.
When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted,
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss:
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this!
When we two parted. LORD BYRON.
BRUTUS.—Whether we shall meet again I know not.
Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
For ever, and for ever, farewell. Cassius!
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why, then this parting was well made.
CASSIUS.—For ever, and for ever, farewell, Brutus!
Julius Cæsar, Act v. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
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.