4 Edmund Burke Quotes on Passion

Edmund Burke quotes on passion

25. There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; none when they are under the influence of imagination.

47. 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.

49. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

60. 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.