Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
Buddha
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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment
Owen Felltham
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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Kahlil Gibran
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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
Quotes , Source: Freeholder (no. 5)
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But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing,
and not only when I am present with you.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Galatians (ch. IV, v. 18)
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For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Romans (ch. X, v. 2)
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Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge
is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss
thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Romans (ch. X, v. 2)
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For zeal's a dreadful termagant,
That teaches saints to tear and cant.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 673)
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Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve,
And press with vigour on;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal,
And an immortal crown.
Philip Doddridge
Quotes , Source: Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race
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I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which
he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man
who is zealous for nothing."
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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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
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 565)
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But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 849)
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But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 895)
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I have more zeal than wit.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Imitations of Horace (bk. II, satire VI, l. 56)
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 185)
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 185)
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