Jonathan Swift Quotes About Passion

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  • A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

    Jonathan Swift, Deane Swift, Thomas Birch, Thomas Wilkes, Thomas Hawkesworth (1768). “The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies in prose”, p.366
  • God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

    Thoughts on Religion (1765)
  • How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

    Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes”, p.262
  • Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.

    Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.681
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