One master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest. 
—­Pope.

Oh how the passions, insolent and strong,
Bear our weak minds their rapid course along;
Make us the madness of their will obey;
Then die and leave us to our griefs a prey! 

          
                          —­Crabbe.

A great passion has no partner.—­Lavater.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.—­Thomas Paine.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest.  It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.—­Lavater.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.—­Bovee.

It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords happiness.—­Mme. De Maintenon.

Past.—­The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers.—­William winter.

Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man.—­Chatfield.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.  —­Byron.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.—­Trench.

Study the past if you would divine the future.—­Confucius.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.—­Byron.

Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the area of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtide of their hopes!—­C.  Bingham.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.—­William Penn.

The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow’s veil; the future, the virgin’s.—­Richter.

Patience.—­He that can have patience can have what he will.—­Franklin.

Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it is nearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods.  The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer,—­a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed.  —­Decker.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.—­Addison.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.—­Madame de SEVIGNE.

Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials.  Hold on; hold fast; hold out.  Patience is genius.—­Buffon.