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Cleanness of the body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
There is a sphere where the enthusiasm of love is the calm habit of the soul, that without words, without the demonstrations of affection, heart beats to heart, soul answers soul, we respond to the Infinite Love, and we feel his answer in us, and there is no need of words.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Enthusiasm | Man |
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.
Enthusiasm | Fame | Motives | Nothing | Time | Youth | Think |
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Enthusiasm | Man |
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. As long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it. But when they begin to look around and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters in, is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand at the end, like the pyramids in the desert, holding only the dust of things.
Enthusiasm | Joy | Men | Pleasure | Receive | Wealth | Think |
Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.
Example | Men | Respect | Reverence | Teach | Respect | Teacher |
Mary Kay Ash, fully Mary Kathlyn Wagner Ash
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Enthusiasm | Will |
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Success at anything requires two vital ingredients: enthusiasm and perseverance. Both can be helped by the broad view that looks beyond temporary difficulties and disappointments to a great goal... Enthusiasm is the priceless quality that makes everything different.
Enthusiasm | Looks | Perseverance | Success |
To have enthusiasm for life, act as if you did possess it and you shall have it.
Enthusiasm | Life | Life |
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain.
Enthusiasm | Feelings | Reason |
Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
Above all things reverence thy Self. [Respect yourself above all.]
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Enthusiasm | Heart | Soul | Spirit |
I should not say that where fear is there is also reverence… but where reverence is, there is fear.
William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
One great gain that the scientific use of the comparative method of religion has brought us is the duty of genuine reverence for other men’s beliefs... Whatever thoughts any human soul is seeking to live by, deserve the reverence of every other human soul.