Robert Merry Quotes

MERRY, Robert Quotes

(1755-1798), English poet and dramatist

Excitement

Excitement is of impulse, while earnestness is of principle; the one a glow,the other a fire; the one common, the other rare; the one theorizes, the other acts; the one needs company, the other can live alone.—The two are oftener found in separation than in union, though neither is incompatible with the other.