Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame;
Each to his passion; what's in a name?
| author = Helen Hunt Jackson
| work = Vanity of Vanities.
If we resist our passions it is more from their
weakness than from our strength.
La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 125.
Toutes les passions ne sont autre chose que
les divers degres de la chaleur et de la froideur
du sang.
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
La Rochefoucauld—Premier Supplement.
VIH.
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Robert Lowth—Choice of Hercules.
Take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will
Would not admit.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. VIII. L. 634.
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.
| author = Pope
| work = Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 174.
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And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
| author = Pope
| work = Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 262.
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.
| author = Pope
| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 207.
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
| author = Pope
| work = Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 153.n
May I govern my passions with absolute sway,
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears
away.
Walter | author = Pope
| work = The Old Man's Wish.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Sir Walter Raleigh—The Silent Lover. See
Catley's Life of Raleigh. Vol. I. Ch. III.
Give me that man
That is not passion's slave.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 75.
What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 204.
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Then with a passion would I shake the world.
King John. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 38.
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.
Othelio. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 43.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have
spent its novel force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer
than his horse.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Locksley Hall. St. 25.
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more!
Edmund Waller—On Divine Poems. L. 7.
But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.
Isaac Watts—Divine Songs. Song XVI.
And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom before its time,
And blanch, without the owner's crime,
The most resplendent hair.
Wordsworth—Lament of Mary, Queen of
Scots.
PASSION FLOWER
Passiflora
Art thou a type of beauty, or of power,
Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?
For each thy name denoteth, Passion flower!
O no! thy pure corolla's depth within
We trace a holier symbol; yea, a sign
'Twixt God and man; a record of that hour
When the expiatory act divine
Cancelled that curse which was our mortal
dower.
It is the Cross!
Sir Aubrey De Vere—A Song of Faith. Devout Exercises and Sonnets. The Passion
Flower.
PAST
(See also Time, To-Day)
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The present contains nothing more than the
past, and what is found in the effect was already
in the cause.
Henri Bergson—Creative Evolution. Ch. I.
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No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have
been.
Samuel Boyse—The Deity.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Robert Browning—Balaustion's Adventure.
