Passion quotes

Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne, Letter XIII, “The Proper Offices of the Bishop and Duke; or, Overseer and Leader,” paragraph 69, printed page 46 in Project Gutenberg #31196. Ruskin says “That is my right work” while describing his own preference for drawing hawthorn, primrose, birds and flowers instead of being forced by public distress into political writing; this is local autobiographical vocation context, not a universal career prescription.

The Prophet, “On Work,” Project Gutenberg #58585. Almustafa answers a ploughman’s request to speak of work; after linking work, knowledge and love, he says “Work is love made visible” and develops the statement through craft, bread, wine and song imagery. This remains framed poetic-spiritual discourse, not an empirical workplace or productivity rule.

Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book I, Chapter I, W. D. Ross translation (1908), validated Wikisource scan leaf 21. 'All men by nature desire to know' opens the work before the discussion of sensation, memory, experience, art and knowledge. This remains ancient philosophy mediated by translation, not a modern empirical finding about cognition.

Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 1, Orsino; 1922 Yale Shakespeare edition edited by George Henry Nettleton, printed page 1 / Wikisource scan leaf 13. “If music be the food of love, play on” opens Orsino’s attempt to use excess music to surfeit and extinguish his appetite for love. It remains fictional dramatic speech shaped by Orsino’s self-dramatizing desire, not Shakespeare speaking autobiographically or a modern psychological claim about music and emotion.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. Keller is describing her future-facing desire for useful activity as college ends.

Essay “Circles,” in Essays: First Series; the line closes a passage about energetic action.

Wuthering Heights; Catherine explains the depth and identity-level nature of her attachment to Heathcliff.

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” represented in Project Gutenberg #20356. The lyric survives through early printed witnesses and is a pastoral invitation by a poetic speaker; its promises are literary fantasy rather than a factual description of rural life.

Thus Spake Zarathustra, “Reading and Writing,” Thomas Common translation.

Life Without Principle, first published posthumously in The Atlantic Monthly in October 1863; represented Wikisource text. It derives from Thoreau’s lecture “What Shall It Profit?” and is social criticism, not hiring research.

As a Man Thinketh, chapter “Visions and Ideals”; this is an excerpt from Allen’s longer exhortation to remain true to constructive ideals.

The Round Table, No. 1, ‘On the Love of Life,’ dated 15 January 1815 in the represented collected text, Project Gutenberg #55932. The sentence opens Hazlitt's argument that attachment to life is driven more by active passions than by present enjoyment and is immediately followed by ‘Without life there can be no action.’ It is philosophical-psychological essay argument, not modern clinical evidence.

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, represented by Project Gutenberg #779. Faustus speaks to a supernatural apparition of Helen late in the tragedy; the line is fictional dramatic speech in a scene of temptation and damnation, not Marlowe’s autobiographical judgment.

The Renaissance, Conclusion; Project Gutenberg #2398. The metaphor belongs to Pater’s aesthetic philosophy and should not be reduced to generic productivity advice.

Speech at Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.

The Prophet, “On Work.”

The Renaissance, Conclusion; Project Gutenberg #2398. The statement belongs to Pater’s aesthetic account of how art affects lived moments.

Areopagitica, in Milton’s defense of a city actively reading, discussing, and testing ideas.

Hopes and Fears for Art, lecture “Making the Best of It”; Project Gutenberg #3773. The sentence addresses artistic workmanship rather than claiming every form of labor is art.

Political Ideals, Chapter I, Project Gutenberg #4776. Russell distinguishes possessive impulses from creative or constructive impulses and then says that the best life gives the largest role to the latter. This remains a 1917 political-philosophy ideal about individual life and institutions, not a current empirical measure of wellbeing or creativity.

On The Art of Reading, Lecture V, Project Gutenberg #16579. Quiller-Couch says he ‘most potently’ believes the best writing can be produced in moments of high excitement, then immediately qualifies that as moments of still and solemn awe produced by noble excitement. It is literary-aesthetic judgment, not a universal psychological law for composition.

Culture and Anarchy; Arnold distinguishes idle curiosity from the pursuit of intellectual and moral perfection.

Phaedrus, around Stephanus 245b–c, in Socrates’s second speech (palinode) to Phaedrus following his retraction of the anti-lover argument. Benjamin Jowett English, Project Gutenberg #1636; the complete sentence occurs in the dramatic speech after examples of prophetic, religious and poetic inspiration. The divine origin of love is a claim of this ancient philosophical argument, not independently established evidence.