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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.]
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which
he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do read more
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."
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.
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.
Blind zeal can only do harm.
Blind zeal can only do harm.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be read more
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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.
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.