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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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"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."
"Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure."
"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."
"No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment."
"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
"I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles."
"Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean."
"I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning."
"You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it."
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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."
"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 only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
"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."
"There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others."
"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
"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."
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