The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.
We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon. . . must inevitably come to pass.
Whatever you do, do it ardently.
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man. . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
I love you. Most ardently.
What ardently we wish, we soon believe.
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs. )
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
