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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

Enthusiasm is treated as the emotional force that turns ideas into sustained effort rather than leaving them as passive intentions.

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Essay “Circles,” in Essays: First Series; the line closes a passage about energetic action.