The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Passion Quotes
There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
The end of passion may refashion a friend. Eyes meet in fear of such dear defeat. The heart’s core, unbroken, cringes. The soul’s door swings open on its hinges.
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
She parried time’s malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart – And aged her in a day!
It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.
He that overcomes his passions, overcomes his greatest enemies.
Where passion is high, there reason is low.
They who allow their passions to confound the distinctions between right and wrong, are criminal. They may be convinced; but they have not come honestly by their conviction.
