Alexander Pope Quotes About Passion
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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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, no dissemblers here.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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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 pleasure, and the love of sway.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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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 things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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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 out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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