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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles
“Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's bean-stalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
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G. K. Chesterton (1)
Mahatma Gandhi (1)
George Eliot (1)
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Alexandre Dumas (1)
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Circles (1)
The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1)
Middlemarch (1)
Vanity Fair (1)
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1)
The Devil's Dictionary (1)
What's Wrong with the World (1)
Jacob's Room (1)