It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity

It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity

Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.

Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.

Blind zeal can only do harm.

Blind zeal can only do harm.

Press bravely onward!--not in vain
Your generous trust in human kind;
The good which bloodshed could not read more

Press bravely onward!--not in vain
Your generous trust in human kind;
The good which bloodshed could not gain
Your peaceful zeal shall find.

Zealous, not modest.

Zealous, not modest.

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge
is lost; let a man who knows this double read more

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.

I have more zeal than wit.

I have more zeal than wit.