All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. George Orwell
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. John Keats
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. François Arago
On every small pretext the wolf seizes the sheep. Italian Proverb
Who seizes too much with his own hand, will have everything slip away and will hold nothing. Sicilian Proverb