Enthusiasm is supernatural serenity.--_Thoreau._

A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty

hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way

not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints,

invisibly helping.--_George Eliot._

The insufficient passions of a soul expanding to celestial

limits.--_Sydney Dobell._

~Envy.~--A man who hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in

others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon

others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other.--_Lord

Bacon._

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