“ If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses. ”
- Kevin Nealon- Copy
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“ Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. ”
- John Wesley- Copy
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“ Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The most essential factor is persistence — the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ”
- James Whitcomb Riley- Copy
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“ Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal — well-meaning but without understanding. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
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“ There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! ”
- Edmund Waller- Copy
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“ Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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“ A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man, God's latest image. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. ”
- Pasquier Quesnel- Copy
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“ We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket. ”
- Clifford Longley- Copy
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