Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.
In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.