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"That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion."
"Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm."
"A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service."
"Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people."
"If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm."
"Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm."
"Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric."
"In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation."
"Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought."
"The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm."
"Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves."
"Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension."
"Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing."
"I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm."
"Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith."
"True professional selling is simply sharing enthusiasm."
"In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends."
"Nothing great comes without enthusiasm."
"If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot."
"And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm."
