Edmund Burke Quotes on Passion
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.