Chapter ROOM to RULING PASSION of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

RULE.—His fair large front, and eye sublime, declar’d
Absolute rule: and hyacinthine locks,
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 300.

And this was thought the highest post,
For rule the rump, you rule the roast.

Swift.—Answer to Dr. Delany.

He is unfit to manage public matters,
Who knows not how to rule at home his household.

Ford.—The Fancies, Act V. Scene 1.

RULING PASSION.—In men we various ruling passions find;
In women, two almost divide the mind;
Those, only fix’d, they first or last obey,
The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

Pope.—Moral Essay; to a Lady, Epi. II. Line 207.

RULING PASSION.—Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes,
Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Search then the ruling passion: there alone
The wild are constant, and the cunning known.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. I. Line 172.

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

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. III. Line 153; and see his Epistle to Lord Cobham, Epi. I. Part 3.