Oh how the passions, insolent and strong,
Bear our weak minds their rapid course along;
Make us the madness of their will obey;
Then die and leave us to our griefs a prey!
--CRABBE.
A great passion has no partner.--LAVATER.
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is
the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.--THOMAS PAINE.
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool,
dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.--LAVATER.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous
only in one, through their excess.--BOVEE.
It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords
happiness.--MME. DE MAINTENON.
PAST.--The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers.--WILLIAM
WINTER.
Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a
child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit
rule of life, is never to be a man.--CHATFIELD.
No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
--BYRON.
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.--TRENCH.
Study the past if you would divine the future.--CONFUCIUS.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.--BYRON.
Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural
that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the area
of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the
disappointed, the springtide of their hopes!--C.
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