ZEAL
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
Zealous, yet modest.
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through
lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who
knows this double path of gain and loss thus
place himself that knowledge may grow.
For zeal's a dreadful termagant,
That teaches saints to tear and cant.
Butler
| work = Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto II. L.
673.
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| text = <poem>Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve,
Ajid press with vigour on;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal,
And an immortal crown.
Philip Doddbidge
| work = Zeal and Vigour in the
Christian Race.
It is good to be zealously affected always in a
good thing.
Galatians. IV. 18.
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."
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life of Johnson.
(1779)
| topic = Zeal
| page = 925
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Blinder Eifer schadet nur.
Blind zeal can only do harm.
Lichtwer
| work = Die Katzen und der Hausherr.
A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's latest image.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 565.
.
But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. V. L. 849.
.
But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
| author = Milton
| work = Samson Agonistes. L. 895.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it
encroaches upon the rights of others.
Pasquter Quesnel.
Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man.
| place = Ep. III. L. 261.
I have more zeal than wit.
| author = Pope
| work = Imitations of Horace.
VI. L. 56.
Bk. II. Satire
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
| author = Pope
| work = Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 185.
A zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Romans. X. 2.
Af y hat is in the ring.
Roosevelt. Said in Cleveland, when on his
way to Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 21, 1912.
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 15
| text = Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich
Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.
The zeal of friends it is that razes me,
And not the hate of enemies.
Schiller
| work = Wallenstein's Tod. III. 18. Last
lines.
We do that in our zeal our calmer moment
would be afraid to answer.
Scott
| work = Woodstock. Heading of Ch. XVII.
If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him.
He would not have punished me.
Swamwra to the Governor of Basra when
deposed by the Caliph. (675) See Ibnu'l
Athir. Vol. III. P. 412. (Ed. Tomberg.)
| seealso = (See also Henry VIII under Service)
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| page = 925
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| text = <poem>Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood,
And customs, when their reasons are unknown,
Have stirred up many zealous souls
To fight against imaginary giants.
Tupper
| work = Proverbial Philosophy. Of Tolerance.
bravely onward!—not in vain
Your generous trust in human kind;
The good which bloodshed could not gain
Your peaceful zeal shall find.
Whittier
| work = To the Reformers of England.
| topic = Zeal
| page = 925
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(See also Wind)
ZEPHYRS
{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with
perfume,
Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom.
| author = Byron
| work = Bride of Abydos. Canto I. St. 1.
| seealso = (See also Dyer)
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| page = 925
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Let Zephyr only breathe
And with her tresses play.
Drummond
| work = Song. Phoebus, Arise.
While the wanton Zephyr sings.
And in the vale perfumes his wings.
Dyer
| work = Granger Hitt.
| seealso = (See also Byron)
| topic =
| page = 925
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| text = <poem>Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows.
Gray
| work = The Bard. I. 2. L. 9.
And soon
Their hushing dances languished to a stand,
Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon,
All on their drooping stems they sink unfanned.
Hood
| work = The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies.
