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Blind zeal can only do harm.
[Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]
Blind zeal can only do harm.
[Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to read more
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.
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.
If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have
punished me.
If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have
punished me.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge.
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age read more
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.
A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's read more
A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's latest image.
