Earnestness Quotes
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. The words made me choke up again, and just as I was about to cry, the meaning of it suddenly became clear. God had finally answered me, and I suddenly knew what I had to do.
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There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
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We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.
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All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
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The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.
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Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
