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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Oliver Goldsmith / Novelist
Love
Men
Zealous
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A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.
J. C. Ryle / Bishop Of Liverpool
Disciple
Savior
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
Tacitus / Historian
Commencement
Ends
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
Gautama Buddha / Founding Figure
Gaining Knowledge
Lost
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Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.
William Shakespeare / Poet
Cheeks
Kissing
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Get shot down cuz your over zealous, play hard to get and females get jealous.
Young Mc / Singer
Jealous
Advice
Play Hard
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People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.
Bertrand Russell / Philosopher
People
Positive Thinking
Zealous
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We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
Edmund Burke / Statesman
Affection
Citizens
Zealous
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When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Confucius / Philosopher
Philosophical
Zeal
Zealous
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
J. I. Packer / Christian Theologian
Christian
Natural
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke / Statesman
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Guise
Mistaken
Persecution
Piety
Religious
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The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
Charles Caleb Colton / Writer
Conversion
Failing
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A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist
Helena / Saint
Born
Country
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Leaders can only lead willing, preferably zealous followers so don't get too far out in front of your team.
Nick Morgan /
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Team
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I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.
Jay Roach / Film Director
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A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.
Philip Sidney / Poet
Causes
Cutting
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A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
Richard De Bury / Priest
Library
Wealth And Happiness
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
William Shenstone / Poet
Men
Belief
Zealous
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
William Shenstone / Poet
Belief
Zealous
Displaying
Grounds
Judicious
Showing
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I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.
Yannis Philippakis / Singer
Religious
Singing
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
Gary Hamel / Manager
Company
Curse
Proactive
Zealous
Employees
Escape
Inventive
Requires
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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 / Writer
Men
Fool
Zealous
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People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.
Malcolm Muggeridge / Journalist
Book
People
Zealous
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As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.
Ignatius Of Loyola / Hermit
Joy
Littles
Zealous
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The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.
Edmund Waller / Poet
Soul
Too Much
Zealous
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I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
Fred Frith / Composer
Perception
Self Righteous
Zealous
Period
Result
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The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
Parenting
Devotion
Focused
Parental
Zealous
Future Good World
Created
Endeavors
Inherit
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt / 26Th U.s. President
Men
Want
Zealous
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I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
George Washington / 1St U.s. President
Religion
Barriers
Persecution
Religious
Species
Spiritual
Tyranny
Zealous
Beg
Effectual
Establish
Horrors
Persuaded
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John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.
Jay Roach / Film Director
Shy
Wayne
Zealous
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I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.
Stephen Baldwin / Actor
Glee
Zealous
People Way Born
Calls
Creep
Radically
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Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
Paul Begala / Consultant
Blind
Enemy
Eye
Political
President
Zealous
Again
Attacks
Seen
Blind Eye
Bush
Directly
Encouraged
Enemies
Himself
Leveled
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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
Khalil Gibran / Poet
Asking
Country
Desert
Firsts
Oasis
Politician
Zealous
Parasite
Second
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Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.
Siri Hustvedt / Novelist
Prose
Zealous
Inventive
Miller
Readers
Recommend
Strongly
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Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.
Mitch Albom / Author
Children
People
Zealous
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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.
Frederick Douglass / Orator
Country
Dull
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Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.
Isaac Of Nineveh /
People
Truth Is
Zealous
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Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.
Isaac Of Nineveh /
Justice
Spiritual
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Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.
Nicholas Of Cusa /
Men
Ignorance
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It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
George Macdonald Fraser / Author
Trust
Creative
Diploma
Dying
Judgment
Punctuation
Zealous
Authors
Urge
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My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their parents are telling them, are taught that illness originates in errors in their parents' and, eventually, their own thinking.
Caroline Fraser /
Illness
Zealous
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In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few days earlier, though, in Moscow I had been invited to address the Red Army, as one of the first Brits to benefit from Glasnost. The subject they chose: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
Alistair Horne /
Army
Brits
Crisis
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Invited
Moscow
Red
Statues
Zealous
Address
Benefit
Days
Chose
Earlier
Few
Georgian
Lenin
Missile
Recall
Smash
Stalin
Subject
Though
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Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.
Barton Gellman / Journalist
Break
Consumed
Military
Zealous
Rules
Blocks
Carrying
Mission
Officer
Scott
Throughout
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Remember that each of us has his own cross. The Golgotha of this cross is our heart: it is being lifted or implanted through a zealous determination to live according to the Spirit of God. Just as salvation of the world is by the Cross of God, so our salvation is by our crucifixion on our own cross.
Theophan The Recluse /
Determination
Heart
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As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican - and Democratic - Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election.
Thomas Sowell / Economist
Party
Views
Zealous
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The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with it. Whosoever therefore acknowledges himself to be a zealous follower of truth, of happiness, of wisdom, of science, or even of faith, must of necessity make himself a lover of books.
Richard De Bury / Priest
Book
Library
Zealous
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Reagan's enduring value as a conservative icon stems from his resolute preaching of the conservative gospel, in words that still warm the hearts of the most zealous conservatives. Yet Reagan's value as a conservative model must begin with recognition of his flexibility in the pursuit of his conservative goals.
H. W. Brands /
Flexibility
Preaching
Pursuit
Recognition
Resolute
Warm
Zealous
Gospel
Conservatives
Enduring
Hearts
Icon
Reagan
Stems
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Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible.
Eric Metaxas / Author
Mistake
Sacrifice
Zealous
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Logically, taking Scripture seriously means being passionately concerned about interpreting it correctly and thus welcoming any evidence that exposes erroneous understandings of the biblical text. Unfortunately, many zealous Bible students and teachers confuse their favorite interpretations of the Bible with the Bible itself.
Hugh Ross / Creationist
Bible
Concerned
Evidence
Scripture
Zealous
Teachers
Favorite
Confuse
Correctly
Unfortunately
Interpretations
Logically
Passionately
Seriously
Text
Thus
Welcoming
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