Ardent Quotes

• There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

  Charles Dickens

  Sincere, Substitutes, Earnestness

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics

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• The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

  Brendon Burchard

  Experts, World, Students

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• Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

  Walter Scott

  Spring, Causes, Fierce

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.700

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• The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.128, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

  Amy Tan

  Struggle, Men, Ifs

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.61, Penguin

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• The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Clouds, Mind, Lightning

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• Prayer ardent opens heaven.

  Edward Young

  Prayer, Heaven

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.168

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• Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

  David Brainerd

  Desire, Way, Longing

  David Brainerd (1824). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Society in Scotland, for Propagating Christian Knowledge: Who Died at Northampton, in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age”, p.291

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• As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

  Diogenes

  Friendship, Good Friend, Men

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• We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

  George Washington

  Education, Appreciate, Political

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1839). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.14

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• True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  True Love, Majesty, Lovers

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.7, TAN Books

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• The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

  Pete Dye

  Funny, Golf, Play

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• My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

  Leon Askin

  Father, Years, Socialist

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Commitment, Nuclear Disarmament, Proliferation Treaty

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.

  Robert Owen

  Country, Religious, Real

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

  Rumi

  Hopeful, Interpretation, True Ones

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• My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

  George Washington

  Country, Independent, Political

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Stubborn, Opinion

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• Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

  Richard Steele

  Affection, Glory, Human Life

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1841). “The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes”, p.155

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• Firmly believe that the Lord is at all times everything to you. During prayer He is the power and the fulfillment in the Holy Spirit of each of your words. During pious conversation He is your living water, the ardent flow of your words at all times ? He is everything to you. Be free from care in the presence of your Lord. He has enclosed you with Himself upon all sides. He penetrates you wholly and knows all your thoughts, all your needs and inclinations, and if you live in Him with faith and love, then no evil shall befall you. 'The Lord is at hand; be careful for nothing' (Phil. 4:6).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

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• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Intuition

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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• That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Heart, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.378

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• If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Years, Would Be, Revolutionary

  Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldman, Subcomandante Marcos “NASI-onalisme ?”, bukuLIAT

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• Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

  Norman Douglas

  Imagination

  Norman Douglas (1932). “Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like”

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• If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Men, Careers

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.139, Cornell University Press

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