<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Zeal - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls   To fight against imaginary giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press bravely onward!--not in vain Your generous trust in human kind;  The good which bloodshed could not gain   Your peaceful zeal shall find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62641]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich   Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62627]]></link><description><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62628]]></link><description><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have more zeal than wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have more zeal than wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62633]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62624]]></link><description><![CDATA[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."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,  God's latest image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62626]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,  God's latest image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62619]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62620]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62621]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622]]></link><description><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on;  A heavenly race demands thy zeal,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on;  A heavenly race demands thy zeal,   And an immortal crown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62617]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous, not modest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous, not modest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit only for the wise but is found mostly in fools]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal will do more than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal will do more than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/943</guid></item></channel></rss>