Christian Nestell Bovee Quote

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


Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884)


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

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

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

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