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Passion Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all…
- Passions are the gales of life.
- In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of…
- Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
- The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through…
- 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,…
- And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
- The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
- On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
- chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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