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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.
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.