If they have only the good will, the dulness will day by day clear away and vanish completely under the influence of the good will.
Gerster, an unknown Hungarian, made fame and fortune sure the first night she appeared in opera.

Her enthusiasm almost hypnotized her auditors.

In less than a week she had become popular and independent.
Her soul was smitten with a passion for growth, and all the powers of heart and mind she possessed were enthusiastically devoted to self-improvement.
All great works of art have been produced when the artist was intoxicated with the passion for beauty and form which would not let him rest until his thought was expressed in marble or on canvas.
"Well, I've worked hard enough for it," said Malibran when a critic expressed his admiration of her D in alt, reached by running up three octaves from low D; "I've been chasing it for a month.

I pursued it everywhere,--when I was dressing, when I was doing my hair; and at last I found it on the toe of a shoe that I was putting on." "Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world," says Emerson, "is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who, in a few years, from a small and mean beginning, established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.