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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.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Freeholder (no. 5)
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Zealous, not modest.
Author: James Beattie
Source: The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 11)
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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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. X, v. 2)
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For zeal's a dreadful termagant,
That teaches saints to tear and cant.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
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.
Author: Philip Doddridge
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."
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Blind zeal can only do harm.
[Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]
Author: Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
Source: Die Katzen under der Hausherr
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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.
Author: John Milton
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.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 849)
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But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
Author: John Milton
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 895)
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Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. 111, l. 261)
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I have more zeal than wit.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 185)
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My hat is in the ring.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Source: said in Cleveland, when on his way to Columbus, Ohio
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The zeal of friends it is that razes me,
And not the hate of enemies.
[Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich
Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Wallenstein's Tod (III, 18, last lines)
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to
answer.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: Woodstock (heading of ch. XVII)
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If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have
punished me.
Author: Swamwra of Basra
Source: to the Governor of Basra when deposed by the Caliph, see "Ibnu'l Athir", vol. III, p. 412 (ed. Tombe
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Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood,
And customs, when their reasons are unknown,
Have stirred up many zealous souls
To fight against imaginary giants.
Author: Martin Farquhar Tupper
Source: Proverbial Philosophy--Of Tolerance
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Press bravely onward!--not in vain
Your generous trust in human kind;
The good which bloodshed could not gain
Your peaceful zeal shall find.
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: To the Reformers of England
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: None
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Source: None
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ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
Author: Sir John Davies
Source: None
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
Author: Owen Felltham
Source: None
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Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
Author: Buddha
Source: None
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Blind zeal can only do harm.
Author: Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
Source: None
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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
Author: Charles Buxton
Source: None
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Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
Author: Shalom Rokeach
Source: None
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
Author: William Shenstone
Source: None
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
Author: John Tillotson
Source: None
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