Zeal. Above all, gentlemen, no zeal. - Surtout, messieurs, pas de zèle {Talleyrand.} Zeal. All enterprises which are entered on with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigour at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. - Omnia inconsulti impetus cœpta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt {Tacitus.} Zeal. Blind zeal only does harm. - Blinder Eifer schadet nur {Motto. G. Lichtwer.} Zeal. Blindfold zeal can do nothing but harmharm everywhere, and harm always. {Lichtner.} Zeal. For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; / The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. {Pope.} Zeal. He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. {Jeremy Taylor.} Zeal. Jealousy is a passion which seeks with zeal what yields only misery. - Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht was Leiden schafft {Schleiermacher.} Zeal. Labour with what zeal we will, / Something {Longfellow.} Zeal. Many men, in all ages, have triumphed over death, and led it captive; converting its physical victory into a moral victory for themselves, into a zeal and immortal consecration for all that their past life had achieved. {Carlyle.} Zeal. Never let your zeal outrun your charity; the former is but human, the latter is divine. {Ballou.}
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
