"Enthusiasm is the breath of genius."
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"Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before."
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"Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist."
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"Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor."
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"Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm."
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"Mere enthusiasm is the all in all."
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"Enthusiasm is the fever of reason."
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"What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff."
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"Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine."
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"But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."
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"I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people."
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"Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation."
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"I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest."
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"What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm."
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"It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything."
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"We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained."
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"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."
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"Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress."
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"Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm."
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"I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance."
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