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“Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm and sec ond a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven Wagner Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as muc...”
“Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set far above the merely secure and medio...”
“Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.”
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
