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Enthusiasm
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Amos Alcott
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment
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Henry Thoreau
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
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Anatole France
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom
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(Madame de) Stael
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power
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(Madame de) Stael
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world
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Victor Hugo
Enthusiasm is the fever of reason
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Friedrich Schiller
Opposition embitters the enthusiast but never converts him
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Ralph Emerson
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm
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Ralph Emerson
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
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Ralph Emerson
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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