Quote#Wisdom
Our passions are most like to floods and streams
Quote byWalter Raleigh · 1552–1618
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen (published 1655); alternately reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) as: "Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb" and titled The Silent Lover. Compare: "Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi".
English (original)
Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
— Walter Raleigh
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