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— Diogenes"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."
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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
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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
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