Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

  • Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

  • If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.

  • The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

  • Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

  • The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

  • I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

  • I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

  • There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

  • Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.