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zeal (s), zeals (pl) (noun forms)
1. Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance.
2. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause); ardor, ardour, elan.
3. Excessive fervor to do something or to accomplish some end.
4. Passion; great or extreme enthusiasm.

Passions are fashions.

—Clifton Fadiman

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

—Buddha (563?-483? B.C.)
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