Take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will
Would not admit.

Take heed lest passion sway
Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will
Would not admit.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.

In men, we various ruling passions find;
In women two almost divide the kind;
Those only fix'd, read more

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.

What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd.

Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd.

If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than
from our strength.

If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than
from our strength.

And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom before its read more

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.