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Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action read more
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.
Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
