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fervor

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Heat; excessive warmth.

Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.

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Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. Frantz Fanon

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. William James

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? Christopher Hampton

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Douglas MacArthur

I've just typed myself into a revolutionary fervor again. Every so often the fury at injustice rises up in me and makes me want to smash something or burn something, but nothing in my immediate environment belongs to me so I have to refrain. Russell Brand

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. Benjamin Disraeli

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