PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;

Walter Raleigh
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams. The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Passions are likened best to floods and streams. The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams. The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Passions are likened best to floods and streams.

The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Passions are likened best to floods and streams. The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb This quote is a saying that illustrates how passion can be compared to things that are powerful, yet fleeting.

It is an example of how something that is powerful can fade away without notice or without obvious cause.

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