Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. [ Froude ]

Custom, 'tis true, a venerable tyrant
Over servile man extends her blind dominion. [ Thomson ]

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion. [ Gladstone ]

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power of dominion. [ Addison ]

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence. [ La Fontaine ]

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. [ Tacitus ]

Affect not to despise beauty, no one is freed from its dominion; but regard is not a pearl of price, it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. [ Tupper ]

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]

Music has certainly a powerful influence on the passions, and produces happy effects upon the human heart and mind when cultivated moderately; but when it becomes the general prevailing passion of a nation, or, as it were, gets dominion over them, it unquestionably produces not effeminacy merely, but a hateful depravity of manners. [ S. F. Bradford ]