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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."
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"Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure."
"What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm."
"Everything interested him and everything excited him."
"And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do."
"I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget."
"Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits."
"It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself."
"Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment."
"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
"Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down."
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"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."
"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."
"Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."
"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
"The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?"
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
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