Madame de Stael Quotes About Enthusiasm
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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.
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Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.
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When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
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