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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical read more
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst read more
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his read more
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
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.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with passion would I shake the world,
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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with passion would I shake the world,
And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
Which scorns a modern invocation.
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
