Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  Howards End, ch.22.

The one passion of my life has been footballöthe most exhilarating game I know, and the strongest protest against selfishness, without sermonizing, that was ever put before a thoughtful people.

-Goodall,John
Quoted in  Andrew Ward and  Anton Rippon The Derby County Story (1983).

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  The Scarlet Letter, ch.15.

We work in the darköwe do what we canöwe give what we have.Our doubt is in our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is madness.

-James, Henry
  Dencombe speaking of the artist.'The MiddleYears', in Scribner's Magazine, May.

It is our first duty to serve society, and, after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. Ayouthful passion for abstracted devotion should not be encouraged.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, Feb. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

   Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.15.

   Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.15.

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

-Munston,Lady Peel
  Fatal Curiosity, act1, sc.2.

Drabs from the alleyways and drug fiends paleö Minds still passion-ridden, soul-power frail:ö Vermin-eaten saints with moldy breath, Unwashed legions with the ways of Deathö (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)

-Lindsay, (Nicholas) Vachel
  General Booth Enters Into Heaven,'General Booth Enters Into Heaven'.

There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble.

-Milton,John
c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.37^8.

Calm of mind, all passion spent.

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.1758.

Why have women Passion, intellect, moral activityöthese threeöand a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

-Nightingale, Florence
  'Cassandra' pt.1, part of an unpublished work  Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth (revised and privately printed1859). Published as an appendix in Ray Strachey The Cause:  A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain (1928).

By the time you say you're his, Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite, undyingö Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Not So Deep as AWell,'Unfortunate Coincidence'.

   Quelque e¤  tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1653  Discours sur les passions de l'amour (Discourse on the Passions of Love).This is usually attributed to Pascal.

   La nettete¤   de l'esprit cause aussi la nettete¤   de la passion; c'est pourquoi un esprit grand et net aime avec ardeur, et il voit distinctement ce qu'il aime. Clarity of mind results in clarity of passion; that is whya great mind loves ardentlyand sees distinctly what it loves.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1653  Discours sur les passions de l'amour (Discourse on the Passions of Love).This is usually attributed to Pascal.

Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highestquality toyourmomentsasthey pass,and simply for those moments'sake.

-Pater,Walter
  'Conclusion' in Studies in the History of the Renaissance.

   The ruling passion be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Bathurst', l.155^6.

Search then the Ruling Passion:There, alone, The wild are constant and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. This clue once found, unravels all the rest.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Cobham', l.174^8.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

-Powell, Anthony Dymoke
  TheAcceptanceWorld, ch.1.

   What is our life? a play of passion; Our mirth the music of division; Our mothers' wombs the tiring-houses be Where we are dressed for this short comedy. Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is, That sits and marks still who doth act amiss; Our graves that hide us from the searching sun Are like drawn curtains when the play is done. Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest, Only we die in earnestöthat's no jest.

-Raleigh, Sir Walter
  'On the Life of Man'.