|Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.|
|Give me that man that is not passions slave,|
And I will wear him in my hearts core. Shakespeare.
|Govern your passions, otherwise they will govern you. Horace.|| 2|
|He alone is happy who commands his passions. Horace.|| 3|
|He that overcomes his passions, overcomes his greatest enemies.|| 4|
|He whom passion rules is bent to meet his death. Plautus.|| 5|
|He that shows a passion tells his enemy where he may hit him.|| 6|
|Hence one master-passion in the breast,|
Like Aarons serpent swallows up the rest. Pope.
|No man can guess in cold blood what he may do in a passion.|| 8|
|Nothing is well said or done in a passion.|| 9|
|Passions are winds to urge us oer the wave,|
Reason the rudder to direct or save.
|Regulate thy own passions and bear those of others.|| 11|
|The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.|| 12|
|The passions are like fire and water, good servants but bad masters.|| 13|
|The ruling passion strong in death.|| 14|
|The ruling passion, be it what it will,|
The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope.
|We ought to distrust our passions even when they seem most reasonable.|| 16|
|Where passion is high, there reason is low.|| 17|