Enthusiasm Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Enthusiasm


However, ’tis expedient to be wary: Indifference certes don’t produce distress; And rash enthusiasm in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety. Byron—Don Juan. Canto XIII. St. 35.	1
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, Till half mankind were like himself possess’d. Cowper—Progress of Error. L. 470.	2
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing. Isaac D’Israeli—Literary Character. Ch. XII. Last lines.	3
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Emerson—Essay. On Circles. Last Par.	4
Zwang erbittert die Schwärmer immer, aber bekehrt sie nie. Opposition embitters the enthusiast but never converts him. Schiller—Cabale und Liebe. III. 1.	5
Sonderbarer Schwärmer! Enthusiast most strange. Schiller—Don Carlos. III. 10. 277.	6
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. Bishop Warburton—Divine Legation. Bk. V. App.	7