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"There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm."
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"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."

"It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself."

"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."

"Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster."

"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."

"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."

"Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure."

"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."
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"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"And here, in thought, to thee-In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne, By winged Fantasy, My embassy is given, Till secrecy shall knowledge be In the environs of Heaven."

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

"How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?-from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."

"In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind."

"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
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