#enthusiasm

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

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The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. ↗

— James Larkin

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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

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Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#energy #enthusiasm #force #human #human soul

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations. ↗

— Angela Merkel

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The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests. ↗

— Angela Merkel

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I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ↗

— William Temple

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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

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