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• Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

  Alexander Pope

  Skills, Want, Virtue

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.111, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If we have no zeal for the glory of God our mercy must be superficial, man-centred human improvement with no eternal significance. And if our zeal for the glory of God is not a revelling in his mercy, than our so-called zeal, in spite of all its protests, is our of touch with God and hypocritical.

  John Piper

  Men, Compassion, Mercy

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• In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

  Martin Luther

  Garden, Sowing, Digging

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan, Helmut T. Lehmann (1955). “Works”

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• Zeal should not outrun discretion.

  Aesop

  Should, Outrun, Discretion

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Support, Hatred

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• There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner with willingness venture her life for your good and safety than myself. For it is my desire to live nor reign no longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have, any that will be more careful and loving.

  Elizabeth I

  Wise, Country, Queens

  Farewell Speech to the House of Commons, en.wikisource.org. November 30, 1601.

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• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, May, Victim

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• Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Christian, Human Nature, Good Nature

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.52

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• Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Fire, History

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. IX), 1936.

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• I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

  John Locke

  Defense, Permit, Used

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's reflections. A second vindication”, p.186

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• Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

  John Piper

  Passion, Missionary, Weak

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.36, Baker Academic

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• Avoid the politic, the factious fool,
  The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave;
  The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason,
  Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal,
  And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.

  Thomas Otway

  Talking, Mutiny, Knaves

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• The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hate, Enemy

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.567

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• Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

  Basil Moreau

  Done, Charity, Gentleness

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• Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

  Hosea Ballou

  Charity, Divinity, Divine

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Fool, Zealous

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.359

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• Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

  Charles Colson

  Giving, Understanding, Moral

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.530, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ghana, Liable, Creeds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I really love Los Angeles! The diversity here! You have people from all walks of life. And there's so much zeal for life and passion and creativity and those are the sort of things I wanted to be around. There's something amazing about the West Coast! As an entrepreneur, as a person who's very invested in the technology sector, and in business - I think there are incredible opportunities out here, almost to the point that I'll probably never leave it all.

  Russell Okung

  Passion, Creativity, Technology

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• I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Perseverance, Lust, Suffering

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.627, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Expectations, Waiting

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.637

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• The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

  John of Damascus

  Life, God, Faith

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• My hat is in the ring.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hats, Rings

  Newspaper interview, 21 Feb. 1912

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• Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Kings, Enemy

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 456

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