"Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment.……" — Thomas Merton

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• An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. — Robert Benchley
• I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its… — Theodore Bikel
• Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect… — David Brainerd
• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion… — Edmund Burke
• My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to… — Sam Abell
• There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
• The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye
• The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those… — Alexander Hamilton
• A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the… — Henry Ward Beecher
• For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create… — Plutarch
• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel… — Robert Collier
• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as… — Thomas Jefferson

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