Enthusiasm goes out. [ Emerson ]

Contagious enthusiasm. [ Mrs. Balfour ]

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. [ Longfellow ]

I gaze upon the thousand stars
That fill the midnight sky;
And wish, so passionately wish,
A light like theirs on high.
I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
I feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind. [ Miss Landon ]

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason. [ Victor Hugo ]

Poetry is the child of enthusiasm. [ Sigma ]

Enthusiasm is the breath of genius. [ Beaconsfield ]

And rash enthusiasm in good society
Were nothing but a moral inebriety. [ Byron ]

Without enthusiasm there is no zeal. [ J. Ellis ]

The enthusiasm lessening the fatigue. [ Ovid ]

Enthusiasts soon understand each other. [ Washington Irving ]

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had:
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. [ Pope ]

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. [ Pascal ]

No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possessed. [ Cowper ]

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. [ Lamartine ]

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses. [ Kant ]

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. [ Joseph Roux ]

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius. [ Tuckermann ]

Alas! how enthusiasm decreases as experience increases! [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm. [ Shaftesbury ]

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm. [ Burke ]

The enthusiast suffers his imagination to follow his heart. [ G. Crabb ]

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. [ Schumann ]

An enthusiasm with which one or a mass of people is infected. [ German ]

The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy. [ Gerard de Nerval ]

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. [ Schiller ]

When enthusiasts get together, they soon understand each other. [ W. Irving ]

Opposition, may inflame the enthusiast, but never converts him. [ Schiller ]

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. [ Arthur Helps ]

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. [ Winston Churchill ]

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm which it excites. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Be not afraid of enthusiasm; you need it; you can do nothing effectually without it. [ Guizot ]

The best thing which we derive from history is the enthusiasm which it raises in us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. [ W. E. Channing ]

Faction and enthusiasm are the instruments by which popular governments are destroyed. [ Ames ]

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. [ E. Kant ]

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. [ Mme. de Stael ]

His enthusiasm kindles as he advances; and when he arrives at his peroration it is in full blaze. [ Burke ]

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. [ Warburton ]

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm. [ Addison ]

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. [ A. B. Alcott ]

No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty. [ Froude ]

The more enthusiastic, the more liable we are to be imposed upon, and to become the tools of the designing. [ Bovee ]

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm (fanaticism). [ Addison ]

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically, and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible, and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world. [ Mme. de Staël ]

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. [ Mazzini ]

Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm, as electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its power by a subtle presence. [ George Eliot ]

Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain. [ J. Locke ]

Ridicule has ever been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. [ Goldsmith ]

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. [ Rückert ]

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. [ John Sterling ]

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. [ Sir W. Temple ]

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast, that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way - an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. [ Hazlitt ]

Enthusiasm is that effervescence of the heart or the imagination, which is the most potent stimulus of our nature, where it stops short of mental intoxication. [ Chatfield ]

Depend upon it, my younger brethren, the bright, self-sacrificing enthusiasms of early manhood are among the most precious things in the whole course of human life. [ H. P. Liddon ]

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. [ Beaconsfield ]

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment. [ H. T. Tuckerman ]

He was given to flights of oratory that way - a very dangerous thing, for often the wings which take one into clouds of oratorical enthusiasm are wax and melt up there, and down you come. [ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal. [ Ouida ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints. [ Dryden ]

Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time: the latter is cured by it. [ Robert Hall ]

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. [ Bulwer ]

In my enthusiasm I may have exaggerated the details a little, but you will easily forgive me that fault, since I believe it is the first time I have ever deflected from perpendicular fact on an occasion like this. [ Mark Twain, from The Story Of A Speech ]

Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. [ W. Warburton ]

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation. [ Lowell ]

Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts men on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes a pleasure of duty. [ Bishop Doane ]

The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion. [ Colton ]

Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and fortune. [ John Knox ]

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. [ Mme. de Stael ]

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 Disraeli ]

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]

The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. [ Carlyle ]

Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!

The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations. [ Henry Giles ]

Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing. It will wave superior there, as if used to a more refined and polished circle. It has a salute and response to all your enthusiasm and heroism. [ Thoreau ]

By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry. [ Bryant ]

Liberty, and not theology, is the enthusiasm of the nineteenth century. The very men who would once have been conspicuous saints are now conspicuous revolutionists, for while their heroism and disinterestedness are their own, the direction which these qualities take is determined by the pressure of the age. [ H. W. Lecky ]

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger. [ Goldsmith ]

I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore. [ Melmoth ]

By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages. [ Hazlitt ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasn: Nourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. [ Channing ]

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]