The Ruling Passion

Famous quotes containing the words ruling passion, ruling and/or passion:

    “When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,—or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,—farewell cool reason and fair discretion.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,—or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,—farewell cool reason and fair discretion.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)