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

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Original Citation

Raleigh, Walter. Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen. London, 1655, I. 1.

Current Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.