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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

John Dryden
Passion, Men, Cheated
John Dryden (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin”, p.139

If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!

John Dryden
Passion, Doe, Reason
John Dryden (1962). “The Works of John Dryden”

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

John Dryden
Music, Passion, Piano
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day st. 2 (1687)

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

John Dryden
Love, Life, Passion

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

John Dryden
Passion, Men, Views
1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

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