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Zeal . Above all, gentlemen, no zeal. - Surtout, messieurs, pas de zèle {Talleyrand.}
Zeal . All enterprises which are entered on with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigour at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. - Omnia inconsulti impetus cœpta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt {Tacitus.}
Zeal . Blind zeal only does harm. - Blinder Eifer schadet nur {Motto. G. Lichtwer.}
Zeal . Blindfold zeal can do nothing but harmharm everywhere, and harm always. {Lichtner.}
Zeal . For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; / The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. {Pope.}
Zeal . He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. {Jeremy Taylor.}
Zeal . Jealousy is a passion which seeks with zeal what yields only misery. - Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht was Leiden schafft {Schleiermacher.}
Zeal . Labour with what zeal we will, / Something {Longfellow.}
Zeal . Many men, in all ages, have triumphed over death, and led it captive; converting its physical victory into a moral victory for themselves, into a zeal and immortal consecration for all that their past life had achieved. {Carlyle.}
Zeal . Never let your zeal outrun your charity; the former is but human, the latter is divine. {Ballou.}
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