The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
The ecstasies above
With thy burning measures suit-
Thy grief, thy joy, thy hate, thy love,
With the fervor of thy lute-
Well may the stars be mute!
Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit.... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest.
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud 'Love peace and pursue it at any cost.' ... 'Remember it is better to be persecuted than to persecute.' ... 'Be not prone to anger.' ... 'He who giveth alms in secret is greater than Moses himself.' ... 'It is better to utter a short prayer with devotion than a long one without fervor.' ... 'He who having but one piece of bread in his basket, and says, What shall I eat tomorrow is a man of little faith.' (Farrar, The Life of Christ, p. 680.)
(but, in rebuttal) When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
The book borrower . . . proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures . . . as by his failure to read these books.
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