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Alexander Pope
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Alexander Pope
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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Ambrose Bierce
ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
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Bible
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
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Bible
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
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Bible
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.
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Buddha
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
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Charles Buxton
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.
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Hosea Ballou
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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.]
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.
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John Milton
A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man, God's latest image.
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John Milton
But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash.
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John Milton
But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!
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John Tillotson
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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Joseph Addison
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.
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