William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love."
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Zealous
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Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost."
Confucius
Philosopher
"When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety."
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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."
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"Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined."
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"We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen."
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"We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests."
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