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Enobarbus says it of Antony, and the line carries a warning inside it, since the longing is described as immortal and therefore ungovernable. It is the sharpest Shakespearean statement of drive as something larger than reason.
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
Quotes that share a topic with this one.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
He who does not seek the impossible will never achieve the possible.
The harder you work for something, the greater you will feel when you achieve it.